To make an omelet you have to break a few eggs; to make a bigger one you have to break a few more; and to make an enormous, imperishable, world-historical omelet, millions of broken eggs are required.
May 212020
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
May 192020
The free stuff is a nice perk of communism, but the real point was always the free love.
May 082020
The speech-censors make their presence known; the thought-censors censor first the thought that they exist.
May 072020
Those who believe that society can be reengineered rarely have much engineering experience.
May 012020
Voting, like tattoos, diverts the urge toward self-expression from more noisome forms like speech.
Apr 292020
There are two kinds of governments: those, like absolute monarchies, that tell their subjects frankly who rules them; and those, like democracies, that lie about it.
Apr 072020
In honest places the corrupt official cannot gauge his own worth, and comes cheap.
Apr 022020
If voting posed any threat to the reigning order, one would not be constantly exhorted to do it.
Mar 302020
With elites like these, who needs commoners?
Mar 262020
The Four Freedoms
abortion
border-jumping
sodomy
dope