It is tempting to license writers, if only so the ones who write about how difficult writing is can have theirs revoked.
Feb 082019
Feb 072019
The purpose of writing is to assemble a zombie army.
Feb 062019
Peer review is a cargo cult.
Feb 052019
Pure poetry, n. A polite term for an especially execrable piece of prose.
Feb 042019
Those who profess indifference to what others think ought to advertise it less.
Feb 012019
The old cling most desperately to life — not from belated philosophic recognition of its splendors, or fear of death, but from habit.
Jan 312019
American cities are dotted by hulks of jagged, rusting metal, abandoned, seemingly without function, surrounded by endless expanses of concrete. This is the public sculpture.
Jan 302019
To be represented is the smallest aspiration.
Jan 292019
If you can convince a man to believe nothing, you can convince him to believe anything.
Jan 282019
Progressive mores, which in the name of equality must be preached to and adopted by all, are mildly toxic to about a tenth of the population, crippling to two-thirds, and potentially fatal to the rest. For a few grifters they make a lucrative career.