Nuggets and Aphorisms

The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.
Jane's Law, as blogged by Megan McArdle (who blogs as Jane Galt) here.
In an Indian context, the Left plays the unique double-role of acting as both the party in power -- propping up the UPA government -- and the opposition -- in opposing most of the government's policies that promote economic freedom. So does that make...

ONCE I LIVED IN CAPITALS,
MY LIFE INTENSELY PHALLIC,
but now I'm sadly lowercase,

In a way, the most morally troubling thing about killing chickens is that after a while it is no longer morally troubling.
Michael Pollan, in "The Omnivore's Dilemma." The quote reminds me of the anecdote about how Leo Tolstoy's aunt once visited him for dinner and found a live chicken on her chair, and a carving knife besides it. "We knew you wanted chicken," Tolstoy said...

The Catholics say, “Shit happens.” The Protestants say, “The other guy is responsible for the shit.” The Muslims say “The shit is the Will of Allah.” The Jews go, “Why, oh why, is all the shit falling only on us?" The Buddhists reply, “But there is no...