Twenty short pieces

[Please do not neglect to check out my innumerable books (a hyperbole; there are seven), which alone justify my continued existence.]

If you don’t peel the orange yourself, you don’t get the good-smelling fingers. A parable.

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Orwell once said “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face for ever.” This is perceptive, as far as it goes, but Orwell failed to note that the boot and the face would belong to the same person.

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In 1956, J. Edgar Hoover called rock’n’roll “...