It is the disappearance of slavery in reality that has caused its profusion in metaphor.
Jan 132016
Jan 122016
The right way to take a remark that you are told not to take the wrong way is as the gross insult it always is.
Jan 112016
Rhetoric, n. An argument that one is unwilling to believe and unable to refute. Cf. sophistry.
Jan 082016
I often hear rumors of people with low self-esteem, and someday I hope to meet one.
Jan 072016
There are born fools, but most of us have to work at it.
Jan 062016
When we are exhorted to be practical, realistic, or grown-up, it is always in service of something hideous.
Jan 052016
If it can be translated, it’s not literature.
Jan 042016
Many nuisances, and not a few evils, ultimately trace to small groups of thoughtful, concerned citizens.
Jan 012016
You can have a new experience by attending to a familiar one.
Dec 312015
Shared antipathies are the ties that bind.