Gods and churches don’t make religions; they contain them.
Sep 182020
Sep 172020
To imagine oneself rejected on the basis of race, sex, or creed must be a great comfort, pushing away, as it does, the idea of more personal rejection.
Sep 162020
An unexpected consequence of social media has been to make public begging respectable.
Sep 152020
Most things are too big, and the bigger they get the worse they are.
Sep 142020
About a century ago “poet” became a polite term for half-wit, and then it was “artist”, and it will be “scientist” sooner than you think.
Sep 112020
In any sufficiently advanced civilization, the Top will use the Bottom to bludgeon the Middle.
Sep 102020
If you throw like a girl, you probably argue like one.
Sep 092020
School selects partly for intelligence but mostly for compliance.
Sep 082020
Humans perceive nothing as accidental, and this is no accident.
Sep 072020
Impostor syndrome, n. The realization that you are, in fact, an impostor.