We reserve our warmest admiration, not for what is utterly beyond us, but for what we secretly believe we might have done ourselves on our very best day.
Mar 062015
Mar 052015
Bore is commutable, dullard is life without parole.
Mar 042015
Taxes, regarded as the price of indifference, are a bargain.
Mar 032015
The hard sciences killed God, natural selection buried Him, variance drove a silver stake through His heart, and yet He will not die.
Mar 022015
Tardiness is the rudeness of kings, and punctuality the necessary politeness of their subjects.
Feb 272015
In science the social construction of reality is known as peer review.
Feb 262015
It is easy to rule people who are persuaded that they rule themselves.
Feb 252015
The trivial is at least usually real.
Feb 242015
The struggle to assimilate a new idea without disturbing the old ones is hideously physical, like becoming a werewolf.
Feb 232015
For every empire history offers a hundred explanations for why it fell, when what we need to know is how it lasted.