What you see is, at most, what you get.
Dec 082020
Dec 072020
Markets tend naturally toward monopoly in certain commodities, like diamonds, or ideas.
Dec 042020
Once in a while evil triumphs because good men do nothing, but usually because they meddle in what is none of their damn business.
Dec 032020
The omnipotent state regards not the individual, but the family, as its most dangerous enemy. The individual it can use; the family it can do nothing with.
Dec 022020
A polity achieves decadence when the companies that help you make money make less money than the companies that help you spend it.
Dec 012020
The habitual liar suffers most for his spasms of honesty.
Nov 302020
The land of the blind has a blind god to whom the one-eyed man is sacrificed.
Nov 272020
To set up as an arbiter of good taste is in the worst taste possible.
Nov 262020
“Change my mind.” Good Lord, why?
Nov 252020
Overrated: thinking before you speak
Underrated: thinking after you speak