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 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.
It is the lies we tell about history that we are most apt to remember.
In lieu of explanation history offers only more detail.
Thanks to the Internet, all inconsequential arguments are settled immediately, and the rest go on forever.
No topic provokes stupidity like intelligence.
Truth’s not Beauty, but it’s interesting.
Precocity, n. Unusually rapid ossification.
Nazism is worse than Bolshevism, because everybody’s sober.
Age would be a lot more use to Youth than the other way around.
Those who disagree with us used to be evil, and then they were stupid: now they are ill.