“Whether or not these people deeply understood or had even considered the philosophical arguments for and against euthanasia was entirely unclear. They were mere cheerleaders for the latest innovation in Being a Very Good and Progressive Person. Ideologues.”
Amy Hamm in National Post Feb. 3, 2026 [the usual use of “ideologue” to mean a person who doesn’t immediately adopt my opinion after I state it, in an otherwise sound column about the MAID slippery slope].
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say if Mark Carney cannot answer that question, and he can’t, then the alleged pivot from foolish spending to wise investment was itself folly on a massive scale.
“Watching his video is perhaps the closest you will come to entering the mind of a banana without going near a fruit bowl.”
Bryony Gordon in www.telegraph.co.uk Jan. 18, 2008 [the video in question being Tom Cruise explaining Scientology].
“We decided the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.’”
Kevin Avram, founder of the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation, quoted in British Columbia Report Feb. 8, 1993 [specifically regarding their approach to fighting taxes but obviously it applies to life far more broadly]
“Whatever men have rightly said, no matter who or where, is the property of us Christians.”
Origen, who applied long-established scholarly methods of understanding ancient texts to Biblical ones, quoted in Tom Holland Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World
“I don’t know if you have ever turned over a dead animal, but depending on how ripe the carcass is, there is a whiff that rises so strongly that the air itself changes color, and a kind of greasy film of rot coats your insides.”
David Beresford, in a piece on a hideous expensive cheese someone once gave him, in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 #8 (Issue 57, 7-8/04)
In my latest National Post column I say Prime Minister Mark Carney and Foreign Minister Anita Anand prattling on cue about a “two-state solution” in the Middle East on the anniversary of Oct. 7 demonstrates that they are so clueless they have no clue that they are clueless.
“You may not be able to change the world, but you can at least embarrass the guilty.”
Jessica Mitford, whose best-selling 1963 exposé of the US funeral industry “The American Way of Death” did change the world, and got her named “Queen of the Muckrakers” by Time in 1970, quoted by Robert Bryce on Substack Jan. 29, 2026 [https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/yacht-zee].