Adjudicating Claims of Truth Using Math, and Not Convenience
I don’t believe it just because it’s true. An interim beyond a certain length of time attenuates the tensile strength of a claim; our years on earth, though brief and few against history’s vast,...
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Like, you’ll go: “Person, woman, man camera, TV.” So they say, “Could you repeat that?” Someday the words won’t come; your lips will fan the toaster-oven air; you’ll say, “Woman? TV? Radio? Opera?...
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Chary Tree
I declare and verify under plenty of perjury: I cannot tell one lie; they must be numbered as stars in the southern sky; gorgeous as guys on Grindr claiming they’re twenty- something long into their...
View ArticlePrincipia Mathematica
We’ve got to get checks of fourteen hundred bucks on top of the six hundred that we’ve already sent; thirty times twenty that the proles have already spent; seventy Jacksons for all the lazy fucks....
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Chicxulub
When exactly I should retire, or willretire has many complex parts to it:a chronometric set of gears that fitthrough genius acts of unimaginable skilland ratios whose maddening math would fillvast...
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As for the flight, Mr. Singer and others had already made arrangements to fly to Alaska when I was invited shortly before the event, and I was asked whether I would like to fly there in a seat that,...
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Oh, Yay!
Amid the attacks on the 2023SCOTUS term I started reading thesignificant decisions, and: I liked them, duh.It’s true they don’t pertain at all to me:I haven’t got a womb, and I am freefrom past...
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Bore, The Whale
This meal just cost me $78 atthe Newark Airport. This is why Amer-icans think the damn economy is terr-ible: drowned in unused miles, getting faton beers and queers and Russian Kompromat—what wonder...
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Unetanah Tokef
I screwed up. I should not have writtenthat tweet. I probably should not writeany tweets, but I was soused and smitten with a half-formed joke: the awkward mittenof a child-drawn hand; the wan...
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Angelus Not Us
The blast killing hundreds at a hospitalin Gaza is deeply wrong. I grieve for eachnon-actor whose non-action I impeach;blown up and blasted down, a miracleof sorts, that it’s occurred without a...
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Endymion
“DeSantis drops out of Presidential raceand endorses Trump.” No less surprise has everflowed from failed ambition; it was nevergonna happen, yet God’s good gracebrought us, witnesses, to this time and...
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Literalism Against Itself
Okay, maybe there is U.S. fascism.It’s now affected me, therefore it is.A parlor-game’s gray host transforms when hisparlor is the pitch, and many a church-door schismturns out to be mere book-to-sell...
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Newton’s Worst Law
The gun, which had a flashlight on it, fired.The verb to participle’s past aspired.The bullet’s now quiescent path requireda wood-framed wall within which it retiredon its own, sui generis,...
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Terrible as an Army with Banners
My wife is fond of flying flags. Iam not. Ani l’dodi v’dodi li,except insofar as it’s implicated mein her shit. Interlocutors will cryfoul, but Justice—I am one—won’t shyfrom fighting’s fighting...
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Brown vs. Bored
I also get really irritated by“you should send your kids to bad public schools,”depriving them of those essential toolsof learning: whom to bribe and when to cryfoul online over some invented guywhose...
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Being? There, there
Trump is experiencing anxiety.Lake Worth Lagoon to wine-dark heaving sea.Two deaths escaped, and thus fearful of threeor four or ten. This violent centuryflailed fast into absurdity:gun-barrel glints...
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