Pedants are secretly pleased by the epithet, which is a promotion from bore.
Jun 302021
Jun 292021
There’s no point in having opinions unless at least a few of them are indefensible.
Jun 282021
To demonstrate persuasively that you will not sacrifice principle for victory, you have to lose.
Jun 252021
Every place becomes less attractive when it stops excluding the riff-raff, and in a democracy not excluding the riff-raff is a bedrock principle.
Jun 242021
Most laws, and indeed most rules, exist to remind you who’s in charge.
Jun 232021
What makes an established religion? The power to punish blasphemy.
Jun 222021
Having It All — in which the first word represents desultory acquisition, the second conformity, and the third inability to choose.
Jun 212021
The more that is shown, the less that is suggested; and to show everything, suggesting nothing, is pornography, regardless of the subject.
Jun 182021
There is almost nothing that being prefaced with “social” cannot spoil.
Jun 172021
If everyone were morally gray, there would remain the question of shade.