In my latest National Post column I express gratitude for all the things that make me happy normally and are now helping me through the quarantine including (my life is so interesting words may fail you here) a brilliantly designed new power bar protecting my vital computer lifeline to the world.
“I laid her life out on her desk like a losing hand of solitaire…”
The narrator in Spider Robinson Time Travelers Strictly Cash (he's going through a woman's personal documents)
“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.