Obviously Jesus wasn't talking about libertarians but whenever I hear someone arguing that taxation is theft all I can think is "who's picture is on the money, asshole?"

Rereading the wheel of time, which has its share of issues but one thing that feels very relevant to current times is that the villains are both very evil and very dangerous but also fundamentally losers and fools with the most petty of motivations

I used to annoy my wife by quoting this mad men scene whenever she said she hated someone but these days those people are actual Nazis so I just have to agree

What's great about modern tough guy "stoics" is how much Epictetus would clown on these dudes

There's a type of guy who will come up with a logical argument that leads to an absurd conclusion, and then act like believing that conclusion demonstrates their superior rationality, rather than thinking "hmm, maybe something was wrong with the premises I started with"