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There are times when you have to choose between being a human being and having good taste

The words in the title are used by MSNBC host Chris Hayes to describe the men working directly under General Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan, as characterized by Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings. The open contempt for the President expressed by these men caused President Obama to relieve McChrystal of his command. But Hayes could just […]

Don’t rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world stood up and stopped the Bastard, the Bitch that bore him is in heat again.

A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a threepenny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.

People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart. –Bertolt Brecht – Garga, in In the Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Städte (1923)

This is an excerpt from an interview with me about Uranium Madhouse’s upcoming production of A Man’s A Man.

Oh why do we not say the important things, it would be so easy, and we are damned because we do not.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out from underneath him.

Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.