Dissent requires the willingness to set aside a few evenings, dissidence the occasional weekend.
Nov 212017
Nov 202017
It is our former selves that we especially loathe.
Nov 172017
Almost everyone means well, and this is terrifying.
Nov 162017
There is no freedom to speak without the freedom to be silent.
Nov 152017
Authority depends on prestige, or failing that, police.
Nov 142017
Let us give thanks to all who disagree with us stupidly, without whom we would have so little to say.
Nov 132017
Love is mostly sex and marriage is mostly talk.
Nov 102017
I regret nothing but consequences.
Nov 092017
Someone who understands politics is about as likely to set up as a pundit as someone who can predict the future is to set up as a psychic.
Nov 082017
Civilization creates leisure, leisure promotes folly, and folly ends civilization.