Of all avocations the grimmest must be politics. The one thing nobody seems to get out of it is fun.
Feb 282023
You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Of all avocations the grimmest must be politics. The one thing nobody seems to get out of it is fun.
A miserable fate, to be the voice of one’s generation, that I shall fortunately not suffer.
Ostracism, as the Greeks understood, is the cruelest punishment.
Where counting is permitted, ordering is not far behind.
“Have a nice day”, by convention, always closes an effort to spoil it.
Anarchists are scarce but anarcho-this and anarcho-thats are thick on the ground; what follows the hyphen is the dream.
I am multitasking. You are distracted. He is scatter-brained.
We have laws against private usury, yet where are the laws against public uxory?
We are pleased when the serious man clowns, dismayed when the clown turns serious.
Experts have replaced adults.