It takes talent to write a hit pie… but anyone can write a puff piece that in thirty years will read as a hit piece

It wasn’t false modesty exactly You might call it un-unpretentious if you were being pretentious

I was happily feeding at the trough when I noticed it had been filled with finger food

Gracious me! Now that college Has become a finishing school There are no starter homes

There used to be two types of peop… Those who wanted to Go ahead and get it over with And those who wanted to postpone t… This enabled some degree of self-s…

You don’t really know someone until it becomes clear that you don’t really know them

The kingdom of heaven is like a tr… where gentlemen may remove their h… while all others must

It’s almost impossible to tell the difference between self-effacement and self-abasement In the former he stays down to earth

No one seems to see (least of all me) that being all you can be isn’t about clutching superiority– it’s for abjuring mediocrity

Denial leaves a vacuum that is ever filled by wishful thinking

Whether or not “art is the proper task of life” the transition to AI-generated synthetic media will complete the debasement of th…

Wittgenstein let the fly out of the bottle but western philosophy was soon back on the bottle

Johnny Cash is going to Jackson; I have been to Jacksonville

The quartermaster is responsible f… and nothing more Some of you will be content to half-ass the rest of it Some of you will be willing to ris…

It should come as no surprise when the Emperor with no clothes e… Off with their threads!