Recycling laws exist to remind you that your rulers, though they have nothing to charge you with, can force you to sort through your garbage.
Sep 292020
Sep 282020
Thought-criminals, like regular ones, would escape punishment more often if they could manage not to boast of their exploits.
Sep 252020
You think your political opponents are unqualified to vote, they think the same of you, and you’re both right.
Sep 242020
There are men who believe in a government of laws, not men; but they are not the men who govern.
Sep 232020
Anybody can equivocate; ambiguity takes talent.
Sep 222020
Parade, n. Mob in waiting.
Sep 212020
One obtains a reputation for prophecy by predicting what is already happening that no one else has noticed.
Sep 182020
Gods and churches don’t make religions; they contain them.
Sep 172020
To imagine oneself rejected on the basis of race, sex, or creed must be a great comfort, pushing away, as it does, the idea of more personal rejection.
Sep 162020
An unexpected consequence of social media has been to make public begging respectable.