In my latest National Post column I say the possibly entry of John Baird into the Tory leadership race as a self-proclaimed “true blue” candidate who’s also modern raises the question of what exactly he thinks he believes… if anything. OK. Never mind exactly. Can we at least get a vague notion?
“You can’t bet the farm on it or you’ll buy the farm.”
Commentator on Blue Jays’ game on CBC Oct. 2, 1992 [specifically re a pitcher going low and away or high and tight]
“It made a man feel what he should feel, that he was still in the childhood of the world.”
G.K. Chesterton, The Club of Queer Trades
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the spat in France over whether to stick a monstrous modern spire on a restored Notre Dame cathedral reflects a civilization that, cut off from tradition, has lost the ability to believe in anything.
In my latest National Post column I say safe injection sites are too timid an answer to the harm done by the war on drugs.
“What in our history makes you think I’m capable of something like that?”
Roy O’Bannon (Owen Wilson) to Chon Wang (Jackie Chan) in Shanghai Knights according to www.imdb.com
“Soon we shall know everything the 18th century didn’t know, and nothing it did, and it will be hard to live with us.”
Randall Jarrell, quoted on flyleaf of Neil Postman Building a Bridge to the 18th Century