We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards.
No. Her eyes were like chips of stone. He died because the Telestines have enslaved us. He died for humanity. He
That—too busy playing football. I figured someone was…. He trailed off. Isaacson glanced up. Was what? Never mind. Need anything else, sir? I
If you get mad at someone for being right, they’ll second-guess themselves constantly. If you yell at them for telling the truth, they’ll just lie next time.
You can forget Proust and those stupid cakes. Beatles’ songs are more potent.
Jack Daniels. Damn, she broke out the good stuff for him.
It was hit or miss
A few minutes later his XO appeared, saluting the marine guard as she crossed the threshold to the bridge, which sensibly resided deep within the armored core of the ship rather than being perched pre...
Missed that place. Lavish, finely decorated,
And it was gone—the super-carrier Justice. At least three thousand souls manning its gun crews, engine rooms, half a dozen flightdecks ... all gone in a brilliant, pixelated flash of light. The massiv...
When you think you’re on the good side, you’re capable of unthinkable evil.
When the danger came from within, the risk was always highest.
A day of infamy. It will forever be remembered among my people as our lowest moment. Our darkest time.
Astronomical units
Dublin fleet will be more than sufficient to meet the threat. But … but that’s … that’s just mad! The man looked flustered, his
There were three things that could fundamentally change a person: time, alcohol, and managing a bureaucracy.
Long middle finger resembling a twig that it could use for probing for grubs. There is a telling example of convergent evolution when an unrelated species (the Long-Fingered Possum from Papua New Guin...
Just because something is old, doesn’t mean we need to throw it away. What kind of society have we become, what happens to our values when we say that just because something or someone has been around...
When I see something I desire, I take it. When it is out of my reach, I plan, meticulously, how I may obtain it. And when there is a trophy that everyone claims is unreachable, it only makes me want i...
The only dangerous thing about ignoramuses is when they vote for ignoramuses.