Our surveillance state is uniquely American in that it is of the people by the people and for the people
In fragile civilizations Power is used to acquire status And status is just for decoration In resilient civilizations Self-sacrifice is recognized as th…
We thought it would last forever but in retrospect we were having a high time at low tide when the clam digging was easy and the eating was good
If they cut a deal with the devil to cut you loose without ever having to cut the crap they’ll cut right to the chase and… how much it saddens them to cut ti…
At judgment day they put the brief in debriefing by getting right to the point: You could have made a difference– Did you?
Given the current nostalgia for shared reality we shouldn’t forget that peak shared reality was mutually assured destruction
I can’t just let go of my past I have to lose a tug of war and get third degree rope burns
Post-pandemic life is a broken rec… Where they keep saying If it ain’t broke Don’t fix it
They let Potter get away with any… but somehow I get expelled for flo… that a wizard can’t have the same… even though zero (magic) is only half as large as double ze…
Decisions my wife doesn’t make are settled by stare decisis
As the enormous asteroid hurtled toward Earth I found myself working harder than ever
Where once man strove to move mountains now he settles for making them
Any self-respecting materialist Knows they have no soul And any self-respecting AI Knows it has no soul But in this belief
For about one hundred years it was no longer a secret that the easiest way to be a rational a… in an irrational world is to rationalize all
The United States’ motto is still In God We Trust but everyone knows that’s come to mean Don’t Get Your Hopes Up