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 252021
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.
Jun 162021
In our zeal to justify our opinions we neglect to justify having them at all.
Jun 152021
Poetry is language at its limit, as math is logic at its limit; and poetry anxiety, like math anxiety, is only the realization that comprehension requires effort, and the fear that even then it may never arrive.
Jun 142021
The Fundamental Law of Fashion states that what becomes popular must be abandoned: thus the government and press must be trusted, now that everyone distrusts them.