The Efficient Action Hypothesis: If it were worth doing, someone would have done it already.
Dec 122019
Nothing
You cannot have a contemporary prison without contemporary furniture.
—Clouseau
Dec 042019
If hope lay in the proles, there would be no hope, but it lies in the intellectuals, and there is no hope.
Nov 122019
The two worst generations are the next one and the last one, in that order.
Nov 062019
Suicide will never be common; it requires imagination.
Oct 302019
The realistic, democratic, and inclusive standard for beauty is ugliness.
Oct 212019
If it weren’t for politics, I would have to refuse more invitations.
Sep 262019
It isn’t tolerance unless you disapprove.
Sep 252019
It is less important, now, to have something to say than someone to listen.
Sep 192019
The people whose intelligence is argued over are, as a class, more intelligent than the people who argue over it.
Aug 232019
The up-to-date bully yells for help while he’s beating you up.