As the short way to evil is to try to look good, so the short way to stupid is to try to look clever.
Apr 172020
Lying
To a quite unwreckable Lie,
To a most impeccable Lie!
To a water-tight, fire-proof, angle-iron, sunk-hinge, time-lock, steel-faced Lie!
Not a private hansom Lie,
But a pair-and-brougham Lie,
Not a little-place-at-Tooting, but a country-house-with-shooting
And a ring-fence-deer-park Lie.
—-Kipling
Jan 092020
Sixty years ago we were repressed, and there were a few things it was dangerous to say. Today we are liberated, and there are a great many.
Dec 252019
There are no noble lies, but useful myths abound.
Dec 172019
We say that it can’t be true when we mean that it mustn’t.
Dec 062019
No one inveighs so strictly against ad hominem as degenerate liars.
Oct 222019
Lies are products, and supply must be commensurate with demand.
Oct 172019
The check is sometimes in the mail, but no one has ever been just curious.
Oct 032019
Clever lies are as common as clever truths are rare.
Oct 012019
It’s not usually the truth that’s being shoved down your throat.
Sep 302019
“We” means neither me nor thee.