"The appalling lack of empathy for the aggrieved subject of an unwanted BLP article is so very much at the rotten core of en.wp. The cruelty is the point."

Vigilant: Wikipediocracy. October 2021.

They don't make insults like they used to:

“…a pure romancer and a supreme master of the gentle art of lying.”

A former employer of Gustave Whitehead [1]

Anthropology is fun:

The Jinghpaw word majan here translated as 'war' also means 'a love song'. Its literal significance seems to be 'woman business'.

Edmund Leach, Political systems of highland Burma 1964, footnote to p.89.

Simplicity:

"There is no limit to how simple an idea can be when it doesn't have to conform to reality" [2]

Not wrong:

"I find social media to be a soul-sucking void of meaningless affirmation." Wednesday Adams

Declaration of not having a conflict of interest

Per the bizarre discussion here [3], I would like to publicly declare that I have no conflict of interest regarding the Smithsonian Institution. Or with Gustave Whitehead. Or the Wright Brothers. Or anyone else involved even remotely with the controversy over Whitehead's implausible aviation exploits. And if I'm the reincarnation of Orville, Wilbur, or anyone else featured in this unlikely tale, I'm entirely unaware of it.... AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:33, 27 November 2022 (UTC)