Sunday, 1 December 2013

Why Ethics Committees Attract Bullies

Ethicists issue the commands that they insist other people must obey.

Saturday, 30 November 2013

Friday, 29 November 2013

Monday, 25 November 2013

The Multiversity

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, 
that it is suspended between its position in the external world, 
with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, 
and the splendid world of our imagination.
 — Richard Hofstadter

Thursday, 21 November 2013

B Grade

The best minds are not in government.
 – Ronald Reagan

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

Minority Ruled

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
 — H. L. Mencken

Saturday, 16 November 2013

Holeness

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness.
And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
 — D.H. Lawrence

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Monday, 11 November 2013

Undead Canary

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
 — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Sunday, 10 November 2013

Dunces

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: 
that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
 — Jonathan Swift

Friday, 8 November 2013

Cops'R'Tops

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
 — Brendan Behan

Thursday, 7 November 2013

Rabble Rousing

I never desired to please the rabble. 
What pleased them, I did not learn; 
and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
 — Epicurus

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Purgatory

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
 — Mark Twain