There is no gait that a dog breed does not exemplify. Setters stalk, dachshunds scurry, Labradors amble, German shepherds skulk, terriers march.
Mar 292023
Nothing
You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Mar 242023
I’m no misanthrope. Some of my best friends are people.
Mar 132023
Superlatives have driven out comparatives, as bad money drives out good.
Feb 282023
Of all avocations the grimmest must be politics. The one thing nobody seems to get out of it is fun.
Feb 132023
A miserable fate, to be the voice of one’s generation, that I shall fortunately not suffer.
Jan 302023
Ostracism, as the Greeks understood, is the cruelest punishment.
Jan 162023
Where counting is permitted, ordering is not far behind.
Jan 102023
“Have a nice day”, by convention, always closes an effort to spoil it.
Dec 292022
Anarchists are scarce but anarcho-this and anarcho-thats are thick on the ground; what follows the hyphen is the dream.
Dec 122022
I am multitasking. You are distracted. He is scatter-brained.