Can This Be True?
“The world is much better. The world is awful. The world can be much better.” Three sentences that...
Tag: Art
Crime 1
"Crime is a regressive tax on poor people." The best way to fight crime is to flood the area with police. Fear...
Changing Art Exhibit
I have used this cabinet for the last few years as a changing exhibit of our collections that don't normally get...
A Word for the Worried
Subscribe to The Rational Optimist Newsletter. Be reminded that technology is as important as politics in your...
Purpose
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it...
The Law
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s...
Remember
Memento Mori: Remember you will die. Aloysius...
Sad Truth
“Not all wrongs can be righted.” Aloysius Pendergast...
A Critic
“There is no profession more ignoble than that of the critic.” Aloysius Pendergast...
Is it Art?
At the very nice St Regis Hotel in Venice the lounge had a couple of very interesting pieces of art. Upon closer...
