Category: Aphorisms and Observations
-
Hatred of Apostates
This is another similarity between leftists and radical Muslims.
-
The Dyslexic Dems
They read 'U.S.' as 'S. U.'
-
The Dead
Where they are, we will be. And soon enough. But people think they have plenty of time. They fool themselves. Don't put off until the eleventh hour your preparation for death. You may die at 10:30.
-
Compensation
With the advance of years, hearing declines. With the advance of wisdom, so does the desire to listen to people and their bushwa.
-
Useless Rehearsals
Rehearsals are for a future performance. Why then are you 'rehearsing' that altercation with so-and-so from twenty years ago? Do you plan to bring it back to the stage?
-
Words and Distinctions
A wise man does not quibble over words, but he insists on distinctions.
-
Grievance, Demand, and Supply
The elimination of the causes of grievance does little to dampen demand for the need to feel aggrieved, a demand the Left is ever eager to supply, especially in matters racial. (My formulation of a Larry Elders riff.)
-
Human Relations
In human relations an excess of past often insures an absence of future. Newly-minted friendships, however, are pregnant with future but at risk in an age of abortion.
-
Overheard in the Philosophy Department
We are all made of crooked timber, but only some of us are dead wood.
-
Too Shallow for Self-Knowledge
You cannot point out to the superficial their superficiality. For that they are not deep enough.
-
Praeparatio Mortis
We cannot prepare for the journey at the time of departure; the time of departure must find us prepared.
-
Let it Go!
Why are you recalling an unpleasant event when everyone else involved has forgotten — not only it, but you?
-
Righteous Anger
That one's anger is righteous is rather harder to discern than that it is anger.
-
Double Standard
The beliefs of others can be readily explained, and explained away; ours, however, are true!