The epic poem for this epoch will have to say the most with the least

When they drew a winner It looked like we’d won By the luck of the draw But we came by our good fortune The honest way:

Whenever it looks like the Jews have finally been accepted by their host culture you can be sure that trouble for the Jews

In his capstone work Freud, with pessimistic pith Said it all in his title: Civilization and Its Discontents At the risk of saying less by addi…

My children have no idea they are living through a golden age of comedy

Delusions of grandeur about yourse… Are inevitable Delusions of grandeur about God Are impossible Which is how

I’ve started blind copying my wife on emails to myself

Beginner is talking yourself into doing what you are going to do anyway Advanced is talking yourself out of doing

The ego is like a booster rocket That starts out incredibly massive But sheds its size As it delivers its payload– The soul–

In the new version of socialism You can own as much property as yo… You just can’t own your mistakes

In banishing fear of the unknown By knowing it all Our risk is only greater Because now It’s the devil you know

When God said Let there be light What exactly did He enable? One clue is that light behaves As both a particle and a wave

It used to be true that “All the world’s a stage” but now that all the world wide web’s a gauge the real world’s but a Faraday Ca…

The state of nature, where there’s Something for everyone To fear Monotheism, where there’s Something for everyone

7 in 10 Americans believe in heave… while only 6 in 10 believe in hell which is why the house always wins