“To prevent a red herring from being pulled across the trail...”
Paul Craig Roberts Alienation and the Soviet Economy: The Collapse of the Socialist Era
“Men are not so interested in murder and love-making as they are in the number of different forms of latchkey which exist in London or the time it would take a grasshopper to jump from Cairo to the Cape.”
G.K. Chesterton in The Defendant (1901), quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 2 #6 Issue 15 (April-May 1999)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say a crisis is no time to suspend our habit of questioning authority including in the political arena.
“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather that it never had a beginning.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman, quoted in Paul Pearsall, The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need: Repress your anger, think negatively, be a good blamer, & throttle your inner child
“I’m covered with loser dust.”
Courtney Love, quoted in Ottawa Sun April 16, 2004
In my latest Epoch Times column I say that, serious as Wuhan virus is, it’s teaching us a lot about preparing for something even worse.
“They seem to have opened it up a gear in the second period.”
Announcer on ESPN March 15, 1987 re the Edmonton Oilers.
“Even my own fears that Mr. Deeds would be too provincially American – too ‘apple pie’ – proved unfounded. ‘O-filling,’ ‘doodling,’ and ‘pixilated’ were as rib-tickling in Ulan Bator as they were in Allentown, Pa. Evidently what rings true in one heart will toll the same bell all over the world.”
Frank Capra The Name Above the Title