THE THOUGHTS OF UNCLE AL, II

1. Beauty, in the dark.
2. Who watches the Watchers? Entropy.
3. The future isn't what it used to be - some assembly required.
4. The future is in beta test.
5. The future never gets here, but "in the long run" continuously arrives.
6. It is the business of the future to be dangerous.
7. Did you learn how to think or how to believe?
8. Civilization is progress toward a society of privacy.
9. We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
10. Progress is the victory of laughter over dogma.
11. For evil to triumph good men need do nothing.
12. Thinkers were once in charge of progress, now businesses are - and the job gets smaller every day.
13. We are upping our standards... so up yours (re German auslachen and Schadenfreude).
14. Fasten, then zip.
15. You cannot reason with a woman until menopause. After that, what is there to discuss?
16. Morals protect society from people; ethics protect people from society.
17. Evangelical Christianity is both perverse and boring, which is not an easy combination to achieve.
18. Uncle Al believes in Sterculius and Mammon. The Wicked Witch of the West died for his sins.
19. It is better to find something worth living for than something worth dying for.
20. Only Christians go to hell. Everybody else just dies.
21. With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of eternal damnation.
22. A religion is a cult that has survived its leader.
23. History furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
24. There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages.
25. Feminists demanding God be a She but without a distaff Devil.
26. Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
27. If you entertain delusions, entertain really satisfying ones.
28. The world has more money than good ideas. It is the purpose of government to minimize both.
29. Government can legislate ignorance, but it cannot enforce it.
30. You do not need a license to think.
31. When buying and selling are regulated, the first things to be bought and sold are the regulators.
32. Governments deal with matters of convenience, not conviction.
33. Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
34. Human happiness requires freedom and freedom requires limited government.
35. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.
36. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, support by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. - Amendment IV, United States Constitution
37. Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
38. Never trust anyone who volunteers to assume authority.
39. Be glad you do not get all the government you pay for.
40. Government claims a monopoly on vice and virtue.
41. There is no art government sooner learns than that of draining money from the pockets of its citizens.
42. Redistribution of income is not merely plundering value from the productive and awarding it to the unproductive, it is a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.
43. Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
44. Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.
45. Government in charge of space exploration eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight on to hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.
46. Official Truth: If you cannot put a bag over his head or cuffs on his wrists, pull the wool over his eyes.
47. If war is Hell, give 'em Hell.
48. Look forward to the day when you have cleansed the universe of your enemies and carved their bones into flutes for your children to play.
49. Liberals relent when they run short of other people's money.
50. Liberal: He who denies the practical relevance of objective reality,
51. When swine vote, the man with the slop bucket is always elected swineherd, no matter how much slaughtering he does.
52. There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
53. The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists.
54. The desire for racial quotas increases with the square of the distance from the actual event.
55. A Democrat would be a Republican if he had the money.
56. When Athens most wished for freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and never was free again.
57. A stroke of the brush does not guarantee art from the bristles.

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