In my latest Looniepolitics column I say the attack on Land of the Silver Birch shows the PC revolution devouring its children... and everything else.

In my latest National Post column I say the new Japanese drive-thru get-it-over-with funerals underline the emptiness of modernity.

"Strangely coinciding with human beings' ability to cooperate is our tendency to be extremely aggressive."

MSNBC Science June 5, 20125/6/12.

"This… is what is meant today by being broadminded: living on prejudices and never looking at them."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 5, 1928, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6 p. 18.

"That’s the whole story of pitching. Keep your life and your pitching real simple, and you’ll get along."

286-game winner Robin Roberts quoted in John Thorn and John Holway The Pitcher

“The Epigrammatist: 'Mankind perishes. The world goes dark./ He racks his brains for a tart remark.'"

The last in a series of "Epigrams" in Chronicles magazine November 1988

"The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted by Robert Moore-Jumonville in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 15 #1 (September 2011) 

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man’s upper chamber if he has common sense on the ground floor."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", quoted in Daniel Boorstin Cleopatra's Nose