The idea that smoke implies fire cannot survive a professional class of industrious smoke merchants.
Jun 242019
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
May 292019
Group differences never reflect on the individual, only the other members of the group.
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.
May 242019
Pay special regard to the most obvious, most widely disseminated, most often repeated nonsense — it is the loyalty test.
Apr 152019
When addressed “with all due respect”, duck.
Mar 222019
To be wrongfully accused of an illness is far more serious than to be wrongfully accused of a crime.
Mar 052019
It is dishonest to make a special point of not lying.
Mar 042019
Inversion marches under the banner of Equality.
Feb 262019
Nothing is more depressing than an unceasing barrage of uplift.
Feb 112019
Attacks on good are bilge: praise for trash is poison.