My curated self has asked me for a divorce

Whenever it looks like the Jews have finally been accepted by their host culture you can be sure that trouble for the Jews

The ego is a helicopter equipped to safeguard belonging deter conflict and elevate status

In a failed democracy the one thing both sides can agree on is that the real traitors are the loyal opposition

The sloth’s plangent gaze confirms what we already know: The eighth deadly sin is haste

For twenty years people kept insis… that there was an elephant in the… but I just didn’t see it And then I realized I was the elephant

Democracy was superseded not by a police state but by a witness protection progra…

You can’t break the chain of events but you can break the chain of custody for the chain of events

In becoming a celebrity a person meets the same kind of de… that a tree does in becoming a Christmas tree– embalmed in sugar

In a Hegelian reversal, I couldn’t com– plain but it would help

Growing up was hard enough when we just had cliques not today’s clicks upon cliques

The cover-up is always worse when there’s no crime

Steely Dan sings “I don’t wanna do your dirty work… again and again only once intoning “I foresee terrible trouble

In real life we used to say I’ll see your talk and raise you action but that was just too risky Preferring no stakes

The difference between poisonous snakes and venomous human beings is that when the snake bites you and explains