In my latest National Post column I say our government’s mealy-mouthed equivocation on the struggle for freedom in Hong Kong makes a mockery of the notion that Canada is “back”.
“Being for or against a natural phenomenon is a waste of time and mental energy.”
Michael Rothschild Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism (which he considers a natural phenomenon)
“Every Hun has value – even if only to serve as a bad example.”
Wess Roberts, Leadership Secrets of Attila the Hun
“I remember when Jack Smith, putting together a story on me, read me a quote from Jack London: ‘I would rather be a meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.’ ‘What does that mean to you?’ Jack Smith asked. I thought for a long moment, and then I said, ‘Throw deep.’”
Kenny Stabler Snake
In the winter forest “There was a hint in it of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness – a laughter that was as mirthless as the smile of the Sphinx, a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life.”
Jack London White Fang
In my latest Epoch Times column I describe the puzzling efforts nearly every mainstream Canadian party seems to be making to lose the upcoming federal election.
On Tuesday I did an interview with Bridge City News about my Loonie Politics column on Canada’s lack of urgency in replacing obsolete CF-18 fighter planes.
“I know what you’re thinking. You’ll never find a man quite like me.”
Some character (I didn’t record which) on the TV show “Family Matters” on TBS June 6, 1996