In my latest Loonie Politics column I say despite media jeering at Trump for supposedly caving in, the real losers were… just about everybody.
“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.”
Franklin Roosevelt, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail October 3, 2008
In my latest National Post column I offer the State of the Union address I think should be given in 2019… even if it makes people cry.
“The problem of an enduring ethic and culture consists in finding an arrangement of the pieces by which they remain related, as do the stones arranged in an arch. And I know only one scheme that has thus proved its solidity, bestriding lands and ages with its gigantic arches, and carrying everywhere the high river of baptism upon an aqueduct of Rome.”
G.K. Chesterton, “Is Humanism a Religion?” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 7 #8 (Issue 57, July-August 2004)
“Sour grapes make bitter wine.”
Letter from Nancy Sturdevant of Ottawa in Ottawa Citizen July 3, 2004
“To judge rightly of the present we must oppose it to the past; for all judgement is comparative, and of the future nothing can be known.’“
Imlac in Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas