- Old people look absurd playing rock. We know what this says about the old people, but what does it say about rock? # 23 hours ago
- First marriages represent the triumph of hope over inexperience. # 2010/02/07
- All aphorisms are wrong, but some aphorisms are useful. # 2010/02/07
- @Philip_Girvan Metropolitan is somewhat New York-centric, so I may overrate it. I will be curious what an out-of-towner thinks. # 2010/02/07
- A single arbitrary law can topple an entire code. # 2010/02/06
- @jtmckee But I don't want to employee a government, that's the point. I'm not qualified. I just want to patronize one. # 2010/02/05
- Why people do things is a less subtle and profound question than why they don't. # 2010/02/05
- All programming languages are syntactic sugar. # 2010/02/05
- Does your opponent really argue better than you? Or does he just have better arguments? # 2010/02/05
- Metropolitan turns 20 this year. Nothing was like it before, and with the pale exception of Whit Stillman's other films, nothing since. # 2010/02/05
- I don't want to be a subject of my government. I don't even want to be a shareholder. I just want to be a customer. # 2010/02/05
- Life is culturally biased. # 2010/02/04
- "There is no bore like a clever bore." --Samuel Butler # 2010/02/03
- Nothing scales the heights of Hollywood absurdity quite like actors playing scientists. # 2010/02/01
- As Man learns, so should men be taught. # 2010/02/01
- OK, so he died a while ago, but I didn't notice until today. It didn't take me two weeks to think up that joke. Honest. # 2010/01/31
- Erich Segal, author of Love Story, has died, after a lingering but picturesque illness. # 2010/01/31
- Whatever you do for the sake of the children is probably wrong. # 2010/01/30
- @maudnewton Also when you're doing it wrong. # 2010/01/30
- Generalizing from one's own experience is default behavior. The great trick is not to. # 2010/01/30
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