In my latest National Post column I say it's not reasonable to think the accelerating pace of technological and social change is remotely sustainable.
"There is too much tendency to turn your life into an essay. I propose to make mine a story."
G.K. Chesterton in "Notebook" while in art school, quoted in Garry Wills Chesterton
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