No matter how bad your argument is, you can be sure it’s not original.
Apr 282020
Erring
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out.
—Cunningham
Apr 202020
There are no double standards, only invidious criteria.
Apr 132020
There is small reason to believe, outside of a few specialized fields, that a proposition is correct because it can be persuasively argued for.
Jan 172020
It is natural, if you believe that speech is violence, to believe that violence is speech.
Jan 082020
There’s no shame in being wrong, only in not paying for it.
Nov 252019
People will swallow just about any story. Only when it’s not a story do we refuse to swallow it.
Nov 112019
Problems without solutions do less harm than solutions without problems.
Oct 162019
I am working toward a world in which someday someone will be so wrong, so often, that he will just stop talking.
Aug 282019
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 272019
You’re almost certainly completely wrong, so cheer up.