Pressed on their oft explicit Sometimes implicit goal Of driving all of Israel’s Jews Into the sea, Western antisemites insist
The rug saves its harshest critique for the carpet
In five big boardrooms on Earth There soon came to be a great mirt… At the growth in net worth That fed on a dearth In all of the people’s self-worth
In the new version of Heads I win, tails you lose People hate to be wrong But love to apologize And if you accept their apology
Whether or not “art is the proper task of life” the transition to AI-generated synthetic media will complete the debasement of th…
When people ask Business or pleasure? I want to say Life’s only pleasure Is unfinished business
I could do a passable moonwalk in socks on linoleum but if I put on one glove I had to take off one sock
The saying goes: We learn from the past, but we don… But the reverse is also true: If we don’t learn from the past, t… In other words
In order to live I can’t die (but you can) In order to live and let live I must (eventually) die
People are only willing to wait and see when they already know what they are looking for
It didn’t matter that I’d been scrupulously carbon neutral; my interlocutors persisted until I realized that the desire to make… had left a vast carbon footprint o…
When randomness blends with lawfulness you get the Loch Ness
At first we thought This changes everything We weren’t exactly wrong But, of course Everything is highly adaptable
Liberalism can be confused with ni… where you have to believe in nothi… or with Unitarian Universalism where you’re encouraged to believe… as much of everything as you like
Chaucer said All good things must come to an en… Which was widely If begrudgingly Accepted as a good thing
