Causation implies correlation.
Nov 052020
Nov 042020
If one predicts disaster, it is difficult not to be disappointed when it fails to materialize.
Nov 032020
There are atheists in foxholes, but not pacifists.
Nov 022020
Your self does not lie in what you love, still less in what you hate; or what you think, still less in what you feel: it lies in what you say and do and nothing more.
Oct 302020
In a large organization it is impossible to act alone, and every corporate and governmental imbecility that comes to your attention has been vetted by several layers of imbeciles.
Oct 292020
Many people are so bored and unhappy that they welcome a personal disaster, as a change, and especially a social disaster, as a change in which others will suffer as well.
Oct 282020
There is an especially stubborn class of imbeciles, whose good grades and fluid prose induce them to regard the idea that they could be imbeciles as self-evidently absurd.
Oct 272020
The darkest hour is just before it all goes black for good.
Oct 262020
It requires moderately high intelligence to be wrong about everything.
Oct 232020
You only get so many chances to keep your mouth shut.