Progress, n. The gradually increasing belief in the stupidity of one’s ancestors.
Jul 132018
Jul 122018
Now and then, in support of a cause, someone exhorts me so ardently and so articulately that I know in my gut, without consulting the facts, that he is wrong.
Jul 112018
Life is exactly like high school, and not one bit like college.
Jul 102018
We all have imaginary friends, who are generally real people.
Jul 092018
Language is viscous, it resists: one thinks in words as one swims in water.
Jul 062018
The personal is rarely political, but the political is nearly always personal.
Jul 052018
We are exhorted to ask cui bono?, yet cui malo? is often the more penetrating question.
Jul 042018
Why is not half so troublesome a question as So What.
Jul 032018
We argue over the name when we have forgotten the thing.
Jul 022018
Therapist, n. Assistant witch doctor.