“high vibe v low vibe”
A comment about the kinds of people we choose to surround ourselves with, by a colleague, June 25, 2025.
“When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.”
Charles Evans Hughes, as header quotation on Frontier Centre Weekly E-newsletter Update June 18, 2025 [https://mailchi.mp/fcpp/foreign-affairs-economy-education-military-leaders-on-the-frontier].
“The system is broken, and once these judges get into their position, they have this sense of entitlement.... Last time I checked, there hasn’t been any judges elected. Maybe that’s the problem. We should do what the U.S. does. Let’s start electing our judges, holding them accountable.”
Doug Ford in a rare moment of lucidity, quoted in National Post April 30, 2025
“being idiotic is, alas, a human right as well.”
Barbara Amiel in Ottawa Citizen April 25, 1998
“Sing while you fight”
Me on the desirability of being a happy warrior in public policy, both for tactical reasons and because life is both too short and too marvelous an adventure to go around being sour about its difficulties, June 25, 2025
“A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.”
Carl Sandburg, quoted in a C2C email teaser June 27, 2025 to an article that did not actually contain that quotation [https://c2cjournal.ca/2025/06/restoring-canada-special-seriespart-vi-the-desperate-need-for-a-baby-bump/].
“rapid unscheduled disassembly”
The preferred SpaceX euphemism for a rocket that blows up, quoted in National Post May 29, 2025
“It’s crazy how some people need no proof to believe a lie but demand endless proof to accept the truth.”
Emailed by a friend (as a graphic) without attribution