My wife is philosophically opposed to my habit of justifying things, say a bag of the really good kind… with the phrase: I deserve it
Our civilization is a bureaucracy And a bureaucracy’s raison d’etre Is to replicate itself Replicate, of course Means to repeat through duplicatio…
God knows In a game of hide and seek The best place to hide everything Is right in front of your nose So, you’ll never believe what I j…
A rational actor knows a thing or… First, he knows that by definition a solution solves a problem Second, he knows that
Yes, everything good between a man and a wo– man involves friction
When I got to the front of the self-checkout line I assumed there’d be a mirror but to my surprise and delight it was even better than I’d hoped
In fragile civilizations Power is used to acquire status And status is just for decoration In resilient civilizations Self-sacrifice is recognized as th…
And just like that the safety of ironic distance gave way to the false intimacy of over-proximi…
When I listen to the blues I can’t stop thinking of advice I’d give
When the loyal opposition smelled a rat the administration’s defense centered on the fact that it wasn’t the rats that had carrie…
It’s not just that The civilization I was born into Is gone– This probably happens To most of history’s long-lived
At first moving heaven and earth is its own reward because it’s hell on wheels But self-flagellation
There’s always an excuse So, there’s never an excuse For running out of excuses
I may look like a tall glass of water but be– ware, I’m half empty
The people pleaser’s greatest mist… is believing that if you always walk the line you will never have to
