TWE

"When drinking is made a sin, the only point in drinking is to get drunk." Hamish Macbeth (Scotish village constable in M.C. Beaton novels)

When my friends and I turned thirty, our reactions varied–some were sad, some indifferent. But we all shared one feeling: It seemed we had turned twenty just yesterday. Everyone experiences this feeling. The college graduate feels like he was entering first grade yesterday. The octogenarian mourning the loss of

There aren't enough children being born. There's statistical evidence to support that statement, but I have better proof. My wife took our 16-month-old daughter (Meg) next door to see my nephew, who was hanging out with a friend who had just graduated from high school. The

"What is self-evident is not discussed." Josef Pieper

Note: I'm working on a new blog "look." I'll start adding content again on April 1st (no fooling).

Every aphorism is a condensed essay.

"[T]he gifts of the heart cannot be separated from those of the intelligence; those who have drawn a distinction between them, possessed neither." Flaubert

When asked whether he ever felt embarrassed to meet artists whose work he has criticized, an art critic of high standards replied, "Not at all. They ought to be embarrassed for producing such wretched art." Reminds me a little bit of a movie critic (again, of high standards)

"I have often repented of having spoken, but never of having been silent." Simonides (a Greek Pythagorean)

The free-sex mantras from the 1960s are common knowledge today: Get over the hang-ups; love everybody; share your body with everybody. Once everybody gets over these hang-ups and taboos about sex, society will make a real breakthrough in peace and love. Austin Powers' views on living, in other words.