When the benighted differ with me, it is only natural, for they are benighted. When they do not, it only strengthens my case, for even the benighted agree with me.
Aug 282019
Erring
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham
Aug 272019
You’re almost certainly completely wrong, so cheer up.
Jul 252019
Many of the disorders of the psychology textbooks are quite useful in moderation, and not a few are outright virtues.
Jun 212019
A lot of people who don’t believe in God believe in Santa Claus.
Jun 072019
Feelings can be every bit as wrong as thoughts.
Jun 052019
The great political divide is not between left and right, populist and elitist, or authoritarian and libertarian. It is between people who are consumed by politics and people who are sane.
May 282019
The in-group and out-group are praised and blamed by the same people for exactly the same policies, and the bulk of American political commentary consists of party flacks pointing this out about the flacks of the other party.
Apr 292019
No one who thinks of himself as open-minded can be persuaded otherwise.
Apr 252019
If you maintain that IQ has no meaning, I can probably guess your IQ.
Apr 122019
Everyone should have one friend whose thought is a digest of fashionable absurdities. It saves no end of time.