You don’t fight for your country: you fight for your platoon.
Feb 092018
Feb 082018
Reputations for iconoclasm vastly outnumber iconoclasts, which is to be expected, as they are vastly more useful.
Feb 072018
Those tiny notifications are ego reified, tugging at you incessantly, like a child at its mother in the supermarket, in the cereal aisle.
Feb 062018
At the beginning you go to the gulag for criticizing Stalin; toward the end for being first, when his name is mentioned, to stop applauding.
Feb 052018
It is the lies we tell about history that we are most apt to remember.
Feb 022018
In lieu of explanation history offers only more detail.
Feb 012018
Thanks to the Internet, all inconsequential arguments are settled immediately, and the rest go on forever.
Jan 312018
No topic provokes stupidity like intelligence.
Jan 302018
Truth’s not Beauty, but it’s interesting.
Jan 292018
Precocity, n. Unusually rapid ossification.