Diary (January 28, 2021)

Online diary of Karl Jones for Thursday January 28, 2021.

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I think of him as Goliath to my David.

Or, sometimes, as my inner child, who has mistaken himself for Jonah, and me for Leviathan, and who consequently must be vomited up for both our goods.

• [ Post] @ Twitter

Definitely a paragon of rational thought

What do *I* — Karl Gregory Jones, *paragon* of rational thought — ever write that is not *definitely true*, however ... indefinite —?

Vinegar and Honey

One can poison more flies with vinegar than with honey.

Vinegar and Honey

When I brand someone a fool

When I brand someone a fool

I frown

While you smirk, I frown.

I, Scorpion

You know the story of the scorpion and the frog and the river?

I am a scorpion in a land without frogs and without rivers.

I, Scorpion

Memo to Howard Kranz re: America's tragic poet

Ignorance Kills

Ignorance kills.

Spread the word.

Ignorance Kills

Stock Market Blues

Stock Markets are rigged games of chance which the rich use to get richer.

Now the poor have used internet collective action to upset the entire game.

The rich protest "Unfair!" and shut down the game and cry for government regulatory protection.

• [ Comment] @ Facebook

Stock Market Blues

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles