- "Power is not a means, it is an end." --George Orwell # 5 hours ago
- "The mystique of the Russian soul is simply the result of a thousand years of slavery." --Vasily Grossman # 2010/03/19
- To a first approximation, everything is bad. # 2010/03/19
- @benatlas OK. I will try to keep it in character with the rest of the blog. How long would you like it? # 2010/03/18
- The most pernicious foolishness is rarely clear enough to be wrong. It is equivocal--either false or trivial. # 2010/03/18
- News is noise. # 2010/03/17
- @jtmckee Everyone has leisure to philosophize who decides he wants it badly enough. # 2010/03/16
- It is both salutary and difficult to take a cherished belief and construct a set of facts that would cause you to doubt it. # 2010/03/16
- You wouldn't want to drink with most people you'd want to be ruled by, or be ruled by most people you'd want to drink with. # 2010/03/15
- Great systems collapse but do not disappear. Our mental atmosphere is shot through with Freudian, Marxian, and Christian dust. # 2010/03/15
- You can save an awful lot of time by ignoring sports. # 2010/03/14
- The characteristic political vice of the 20th century was the inability to see the trees for the forest. # 2010/03/14
- Give a man fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you do tech support for a lifetime. # 2010/03/13
- @sarahevekelly Do it! Macaulay would have. # 2010/03/13
- Young people with the vices of age wear badly: old people with the vices of youth wear worse. # 2010/03/12
- Revolution is 99% hatred for and envy of the oppressor, and 1% sympathy for and love of the oppressed. # 2010/03/12
- Pro tip for English teachers: If you want to put your students off a book forever, assign it. # 2010/03/11
- No dogma is as consuming as relativism. # 2010/03/10
- @jtmckee "Obligation" certainly includes everything you want to include, and a lot that you don't. # 2010/03/10
- @jtmckee I agree with you, but "obligation" does not remotely cover the distinction you are trying to make. # 2010/03/10
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