The Devil’s Corporation

Apropos of almost nothing, I find myself thinking today about the simple beauty of the definition of “corporation” in Ambrose Bierce’s masterwork of misanthropy, The Devil’s Dictionary:
CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

The Soullessness of George W.

In a speech from last year, novelist E. L. Doctrow describes, with simple dignity and humanity, the spiritual void at the heart of George W. Bush:
I fault this president for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our 21-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be. On the eve [...]

My Moment of Fame in the Onion

The Onion, in their deviousness, will never admit that this article is about me, but I know it is. They’ve changed the name of the student and the school, but it’s me, just the same. In the heady days of the late eighties/early nineties, when the Simpsons were the new kids on the [...]