- Emotionalism in politics is the easy way out. It’s a way of ignoring the downsides of one’s position.
- Social media is the conduit through which mental sewage splatters onto the public square.
- Grand gestures are usually empty gestures. The most powerful gestures often go barely noticed or altogether unnoticed.
- How can one talk about success and failure unless he has clearly defined what those terms mean?
- Tolstoy said that people think of changing everything except themselves. More and more I take this to mean that people think of changing everything to suit themselves.
- Twenty years ago, political opinions were tentative and rare. Today they are adamant and everywhere.
- The latest trend in automotive exterior design is aggressive lines and angles. A car coming at you looks like a shark on the attack. I wonder if this is a reflection of the aggressive, uncompromising mood of Americans. We are what we buy.
- With each passing year, the movie “Idiocracy” becomes less parody and more prophecy.
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While Idiocracy is one of my favorite funny movies of… all… time, it is sadly coming to fruition in many ways. 🙂 and 🙁
Still a great movie, though. 🙂
And when a TV “expert” answers a question with “Well, I think …” it really means they don’t know (but want air-time anyway.)
Excellent point, Bill. Speculation and unnamed sources do not constitute news.