Mark Rosenfelder

"The language organ evolved on Tuesday; language was invented on Wednesday; and everyone else in the world was eliminated on Thursday."

"No matter where Woody goes, he never seems to leave 1955."

"It’s a little too early to play curmudgeon and complain that the kids today don’t have the patience to read long web pages."

"How did an entire ecosystem develop around dungeon exploration?"

"I kind of wonder if people who are outraged at the movie saw the originals when they were 13-years-olds and didn’t realize that "cheesy" was registering as "awesome"."

"A good skeptical mind doesn't waste itself on drugs or ideology, and prefers to break the rules in our minds, in the form of humor, rather than in real life."

"A nation needs clear rules on what happens in the case of a disputed succession. Surely there’s a Queen’s Bedchamber Mace or someone who knows."

"If you're the sort of person who likes absolutes, you want them even if all your other convictions change."

"Rejecting Chomsky is almost a full time job. He keeps changing his mind, so you have to study quite a lot of Chomsky before you know all the stuff you can reject."

"What harms no other is not sin."

"The invariable sign of doctrines invented by men is confusion, contradiction, absurdity, and obscenity"

"Idleness, theft, and viciousness dishonor your mother who in pain bore you."

"If he met resistance he threw men at it; if the obstacle was insurmountable he went around it; if the odds were hopeless he trusted in Jippir (God)"

"Words are devils, which may lead a man to pick up a sword; but they can never teach him to use it."