I am irrationally exuberant about the number 144. It’s a perfect square, which turns me on anyway, but that it’s the square of a number as special as 12 makes it all the more profound. It’s a gross. It’s a dozen dozen. All of the ins and outs of the 3s and 4s are just … Read more
“If there is hope, it lies in the proles.” – Winston Smith, 1984 by George Orwell To me, this has always been one of the most depressing lines in all of English literature. If you’ve read the book, you know that this line is not hopeful, despite its literal content. I’ve always heard it in … Read more
Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the … Read more