In my latest National Post column I say controversies over things like high school dress codes show that we modern sophisticates can't even figure out why we're wandering about half-dressed.
Cardus' Faith in Canada 150 venture includes The Ross and Davis Mitchell Prize for Faith and Writing. There's a total of $25,000 in prize money, with $10,000 for first place in both the poetry and short story categories. So if it sounds like you, submit your entry or entries by June 30. (The rules and so forth are on this page and the link to submit is at the bottom.)
"Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful."
Aldous Huxley, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail July 8, 2004
A putt "scurrying across the green like a rat on fire."
An announcer on TBS August 15 1992
John Robson of TheRebel.media reflects on a sad day in the history of the workplace, the day the punch-card was patented. MORE: https://www.therebel.media/today_in_history_humanity_takes_a_punch_in_the_card_1887 Subscribe to the Rebel's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/c/RebelMediaTV PLUS http://www.Facebook.com/JoinTheRebel *** http://www.Twitter.com/TheRebelTV
In my latest National Post column I call the willingness even of a sizeable minority of Britons to vote for a Labour Party headed by the appalling Jeremy Corbyn a worrying sign of loss of the self-control on which self-government depends throughout the Western world.
"Lightheartedness is a treasure in a world too full of sorrows." Tor Kelsey in Dick Francis The Edge, quoted in "Gilbert’s Top Dozen Pearls of Detective Wisdom" in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #3
"The best I can give you is a definite maybe." Sam Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #3 (Dec. 2000)