Ten Things That Occurred to Me #34
If you never wonder to yourself, "Hmm, maybe I am wrong about all of this," then you need to consider that you might be wrong about never considering whether you are wrong about all this.
It is beyond my ability to comprehend why anyone would want a bendable phone.
The worst thing religion does is convince you that you can commit a sin inside your mind.
I am passionate about never using the phrase "I'm passionate about <something>".
There is no shame in working at McDonalds. It's a fine place to work. I have nothing but respect for the people who work there.
One of the most perniciously awful things going on in America today is the many, many people who think that their political opponents are literally trying to destroy the country. They aren't.
Calvin and Hobbes is the greatest comic strip of all time. This cannot be disputed.
Politicians seem to require us to be in a perpetual state of crisis. We are not in a perpetual state of crisis.
I find it to be a deep and profound failure of the free market that I can buy "Lightly Salted Dry Roasted Planters Peanuts" but not "Heavily Salted Dry Roasted Planters Peanuts."
It occurred to me—as things do around here—that civilization is almost entirely about tempering, controlling, and limiting the negative, primal traits of men.