Day: September 16, 2010

Pseudo-intellectuals are like those huge flocks of starlings we see in the Spring and Fall. The huge clouds of birds fly in formations, suddenly wheeling, straightening out, turning, flying upwards, flying downwards, turning right, turning left, all to the delight of those of us who wonder as we watch, “How do they send such complicated […]

Truthis still such an important commodity that those who deny it still pretend to tell it. That practice, in fact, is one of their intellectual weak points. When we hear a liar telling a lie, we may think to ourselves, or actually ask: “Why do you try to tell us that your lie is the […]