The fundamental constraint on action is uncertainty about the future. The fundamental strategy of philosophical hypotheticals is to assume it away.
Sep 082022
Sep 072022
Government does not issue recommendations or suggestions — only threats.
Sep 062022
If justice delayed were justice denied, there would be no justice at all.
Sep 052022
A noxious sales practice, which even street beggars have learned, is to precede the solicitation with a pleasantry, such as any well-meaning stranger might offer. Eventually one begins to dread all such pleasantries, as preludes to solicitation.
Sep 022022
Apostasy always trumps heresy. Refusing to join the army may get you jailed, but deserting will get you shot.
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.