“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].
“And then there are the really mega-freaky publications like Weekly World News that are so deranged parakeets will actually hold their shit in until something else is placed in the bottom of their cage.”
Dennis Miller The Rants [violating my normal rule against dirty words but they do have a place].
“ONE CAN LACK any of the qualities of an organizer – with one exception – and still be accepted and successful. That exception is the art of communication. It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event you are not even a failure. You're just not there.”
Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals [start of chapter “Communication”].
In my latest National Post column I urge media, observers and citizen-voters to devote less attention to partisan ephemera and more to deep structural problems that will bring self-government crashing down if not addressed and fairly soon.
Today on behalf of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms I delivered a petition to the Prime Minister’s office urging him not to proceed with this aggressive infringement on our digital privacy. Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/1194808661
“It is psychologically impossible, when we hear real scientific statistics, not to think that they mean something. Generally they mean nothing. Sometimes they mean something that isn’t true.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Nov. 18, 1905, quoted in “Statistics” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)
In my bonus contribution to the National Post “What we’ve lost” series I try to retrieve the bar of soap once used to wash out the mouths of people who swore in the wrong place or at the wrong time, and the self-control that went with it.
“The unsigned articles appearing in this magazine sometimes represent the views of the editor – and frequently of no one else.”
“FRANK E. MASLAND, JR.” quoted in “Other Suspects – V” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #6 (July/August 2025)