Our ancestors believed in ghosts of people; we believe in multiple regression — ghosts of causes.
Jan 202014
Seeming
Religion, art, taste, and other delusions.
Jan 062014
“It was a culture,” the historian will write a century from now, “that found it necessary to invent the word ‘unironically.'”
Dec 192013
The metaphor always outlives the argument.
Dec 122013
Belief in karma is the coward’s revenge.
Nov 182013
Who will psychoanalyze the psychologists, deconstruct the deconstructionists, decode the signals of the signaling theorists, unmask the unmaskers?
Oct 012013
Christians enjoy having God watch them but positively relish having Him watch you.
Sep 232013
In a friend it is easier to tolerate bad character than bad taste.
Sep 092013
We enslave ourselves to stories.
Jul 292013
Taste is quality divided by expense.
Jul 042013
It is a kind of blessing, if you have no talent, to have no taste.