Acquired taste, n. An inclination sometimes inborn, sometimes affected, and always snobbish.
Sep 192018
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Aug 032018
Why does Hollywood hate capitalism? You would too, if you thought it looked like Hollywood.
Jul 132018
Progress, n. The gradually increasing belief in the stupidity of one’s ancestors.
Jul 062018
The personal is rarely political, but the political is nearly always personal.
Jun 262018
Irreverence, n. The state or quality of not knowing what one reveres.
May 172018
To yearn for celebrity is to envy the animals when visiting the zoo.
Apr 272018
Mankind has outgrown religion: our reasons for burning heretics are now entirely secular.
Apr 262018
The illusion of wealth comes cheap; the illusion of taste costs a fortune.
Apr 182018
Whether the world is a certain way is one question, and whether one should act as if it is that way is another.
Apr 062018
Good manners consists in asking quiet people why they won’t talk and not asking noisy ones why they won’t shut up.