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I’ve had the great pleasure of meeting Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase,” ex–Sex Pistols vocalist John Lydon once told R...more

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Presidents lie all the time. Really great presidents lie. Abraham Lincoln managed to end slavery in America partially by deception. (In an 1858 debate...more

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Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

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As recently as the grunge era, there remained a bohemian cachet in casually mentioning that you didn’t own a TV. But nobody thinks like that anymore. ...more

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Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conserv...more

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But I still feel like I lost.We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It's easy. The first girl I ever loved was so...more

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Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impra...more

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The main problem with mass media is that it makes it impossible to fall in love with any acumen of normalcy. There is no 'normal' because everybody is...more

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It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.

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The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjecti...more

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And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.

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The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.

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And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.

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It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names.

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And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.