Of all avocations the grimmest must be politics. The one thing nobody seems to get out of it is fun.
Feb 282023
Nothing
You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
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.
Nov 232022
We have laws against private usury, yet where are the laws against public uxory?
Nov 162022
We are pleased when the serious man clowns, dismayed when the clown turns serious.
Nov 072022
Experts have replaced adults.