Erring – Everything

Erring

Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham

Aug 302023
 

“If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?”
“Market failure.”

Aug 092023
 

Chico Marx: “Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”
Modern Social Science: “The plural of anecdote is not data.”

Aug 042023
 

There is a modern branch of psychology, which deserves its own name, devoted to enumerating the defects of character in people who hold unauthorized opinions.

Jul 142023
 

When you encounter what seems inexplicable, check that it exists.

Apr 112023
 

Talk of rights is usually cant; talk of human rights always is.

Mar 202023
 

The wish that things were otherwise, if ardent enough, becomes, by degrees, the belief that they are.