Apostasy always trumps heresy. Refusing to join the army may get you jailed, but deserting will get you shot.
Sep 022022
Sep 012022
One must admire psychiatry’s enterprising spirit: not content with lobotomy, electroshock, hydrotherapy, and tranquilization, it has pressed boldly forward to gender reassignment surgery on confused adolescents.
Aug 302022
Public opinion is not what everyone believes, but what everyone believes everyone else believes.
Aug 292022
People’s confidence in their own judgment and discernment is the one commodity that should always be sold short.
Aug 262022
We so often demand that the dead meet the standards of the living, and so rarely that the living meet the standards of the dead.
Aug 252022
Bad times to live can be good times to write.
Aug 242022
What is called listening usually resembles Scrabble; you look for a hook to hang your own words on.
Aug 232022
It is so much bother to steal money properly that one might as well earn it.
Aug 222022
The academic bibliography buries the ten books the author has plagiarized among hundreds that he has barely read.
Aug 192022
The cat scratches at the door the moment it closes, and is the man so very different?