If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

If you once cede to the Court the power to decide elections, let alone even the power to halt counting of the votes, then you have ceded it everything.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.

I took a little celebrational nap.

There are times when every act, no matter how private and unconscious, becomes political.

Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.