You see your own viewpoint about as well as you hear your own accent.
Jun 102016
Self-Loving
We all come into this world with our little egos equipped with individual horns. If we don’t blow them, who will?
—DeWitt
May 312016
The illogical are convinced that they are imaginative, and the unimaginative that they are logical.
Jan 282016
American exceptionalism: The belief that everywhere should be exactly like America, but not just yet.
Dec 072015
Intellectuals place a great premium on intelligence, to draw attention from the fact that they are, as a class, quite thick.
Nov 162015
The best time to mention your high IQ is while explaining how IQ measures nothing important.
Nov 092015
We say that we know a man when we catch a glimpse, in him, of ourselves.
Nov 052015
Few who profess to ignore what others think extend the policy to praise: they fast by gorging on dessert.
Oct 282015
Therapy encourages the patient to think and talk about himself — which is what induced him to seek therapy.
Oct 132015
We say that we don’t understand, not humbly, but petulantly, to fault the speaker for pretension, or obscurity, or knowledge of the subject.
Oct 052015
Sometimes we laugh because it’s funny, sometimes to be polite or to be rude; but usually to show that we understand the joke.