Agency — use it or lose it.
Apr 222022
Apr 212022
An event scheduled long in advance grows ominous as it nears: one resents one’s past self for impudently binding the present.
Apr 202022
We complain of government inefficiency and unaccountability, instead of government mass murder, wholesale theft, and miseducation of our children by force, which makes our own supine posture rather too apparent.
Apr 192022
It is shocking to see a man act on an idea.
Apr 182022
Dead white men are to be disregarded in part because they are men, more because they are white, and most of all because they are dead.
Apr 152022
An urge becomes irresistible by not being resisted.
Apr 142022
Few mourn dueling, but many mourn the qualities that once induced men to duel.
Apr 132022
Where nonsense is tolerated, difficulty is banished.
Apr 122022
A law is a metric, and like any other metric it can and will be gamed.
Apr 112022
The characteristic maladies of our age are adult infantilism and childhood senescence.