[This was posted anonymously on the web some years ago. I don’t know who the author is (Update: now I do), but I’m not inviting him to my kid’s next birthday party.] I am better than your kids. By Anonymous If you work in an office with lots of people, chances are that you work […]
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Our culture seems intent upon reviving the wisdom of those other ancient Greek philosophers: Mediocrates, Toiletes, and Idiocratus.
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Freud saw Mommy kissing Santa ClausUnderneath the mistletoe last night.It surely was a dreamHe thought, brought on by curdled cream.Now therapy is called forPsycho-analytically. [With apologies to the Jackson Five.]
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I am a member of an oppressed minority. I have known this for a long time but recently came across irrefutable evidence of the calloused underbelly of our culture’s indifference to those who are different. Click on this image to see what I mean: There it is, right in the middle of the page: Being
Against right privilege! Read More »
Early modern philosopher Francis Bacon opens his “Of Marriage and Single Life” essay this way: “He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly, the best works, and of the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried
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The platypus: The English language: Extinction:
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In dystopic Atlas Shrugged, Dagny Taggart faced huge obstacles keeping the railroad running. But the president of the nation, Mr. Thompson, authorized the Payroll Protection Plan. Would Dagny fill out the application paperwork herself, or would she delegate that to Eddie Willers? Howard Roark said No to the Manhattan Bank Building commission, even though
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Suppose Congress has passed and the President signed the Retail Redistribution Ruling (RRR). The RRR’s terms are that all WalMart stores are now nationalized, and for one day every WalMart store will be open to the public for citizens to take something they want. You receive in the mail a ticket entitling you to enter
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