If journalism is the first draft of history, we know how far to trust history.
Apr 212020
Apr 202020
There are no double standards, only invidious criteria.
Apr 172020
As the short way to evil is to try to look good, so the short way to stupid is to try to look clever.
Apr 162020
The money is always for something, but the service often differs from the job description.
Apr 152020
Any remotely promising new idea will promptly be seized on to explain everything.
Apr 142020
The eternal Manichean struggle is between not good and evil, but sloth and industry.
Apr 132020
There is small reason to believe, outside of a few specialized fields, that a proposition is correct because it can be persuasively argued for.
Apr 102020
Money, n. Crystallized desire.
Apr 092020
It is an insult to be paid by the word.
Apr 082020
You never get a good piece of music stuck in your head, just an idiotically catchy pop song or advertising jingle; and ideas work the same way.