—For every economic system there are advocates who insist on both its inevitability and its fairness. They are always wrong. —The Mohammedan may want his virgins in the afterlife, and…
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“…there is nothing wrong in being a fool where that has no effect.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan “We think instinctively of science as a realm of pure…
“It is one thing for the common use of words to shift organically over time…It is another thing, however—and an inherently malevolent thing—to deliberately and dishonestly manipulate and distort meanings…
I love finding a great song from an artist I’d not previously heard of. These songs leave me wondering why they didn’t become a big hit at the time of…
I don’t plan to have a funeral. I think it’s best to fade away without any hoopla. But for those interested in one in my memory (hopefully, far in the…
I collect quotes. I have thousands of them. On topics such as freedom, freedom of speech, economics, war, love, and motherhood, among others. When I find one that strikes me…
Awful truth #19: A life with no regrets is not a life. “The past is always looking over your shoulder, whispering things you don’t want to hear.” —Tom Perrotta, Tracy…
I was destroyed yet made complete; darkness descended upon my life as a great light; wretched things did become great treasures; cool, healing touches burned and wounded; I wept for…
There will come a day when it’s the last time I do each of the things that make up a life. Some of these I will know at that very…
Gyril was bored. Unbearably so. He didn’t feel like reading, not even his antique books, which if not for the ultrafilt unit would’ve now been covered with a coat of…