Anarchists are scarce but anarcho-this and anarcho-thats are thick on the ground; what follows the hyphen is the dream.
Dec 292022
Nothing
You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
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.
Oct 312022
Automated spell-check is an object lesson in tail risk: it reduces the number of errors, but by attempting to correct them with actual words, renders each a potential catastrophe.
Oct 262022
No matter how the world appears to be improving, it always feels like it’s falling apart.
Oct 202022
Every group exists by discriminating, and every campaign against its discrimination is a campaign against the group.
Oct 132022
All Canadians are experts on American politics in the way all childless people, who experience children mostly as squalling public nuisances, are experts on child-rearing.
Oct 112022
Many a reputation has been made by dying at just the right time.