Separation of powers: each bureaucrat gets a tiny bit.
May 202022
May 192022
Deontology for thee, but not for me.
May 182022
If the rich and accomplished were swine, they would be envied less. As it is, they are envied for being rich, accomplished, and not swine.
May 172022
Appointments are made with resignation and kept with foreboding.
May 162022
The null hypothesis is the dull hypothesis.
May 132022
A man with a fixed idea is like a small child with a secret — he tries to hide it but he cannot help himself, and before long some slight provocation will send it gushing forth.
May 122022
One’s former selves ought to be labeled with subscripts for the year, like isotopes with their atomic weights.
May 112022
One is the trustiest sample size.
May 102022
The frequency of demands for citations and evidence varies inversely with the capacity to understand them. “Source?” is a verbal tic, like Tourette’s.
May 092022
The writer who does not disappoint in person has left too little of himself on the page.