In my latest Loonie Politics column I say even more worrying than the WE scandal antics is the public sector insouciantly taking massive paid leaves and giving itself big raises during the private sector pandemic crisis.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the exceptionally rude rhetoric Chinese “diplomats” are aiming even at the United States suggests that this ugly regime thinks its time to strike has come.
In my latest National Post column I say the WE scandal must not put us to sleep with its characteristically Canadian dull murkiness.
“Every activity has its own specific goal. Pleasure very probably ensues in most cases when this goal is reached, but that is a different matter.”
I.A. Richards Principles of Literary Criticism
“Marvellous, old cock! I never realized Malvolio could be played as a bore.”
“what Lawrence Olivier once wickedly said to Alec Guinness” according to Tom Carson in The Atlantic Monthly September 2004
“For they [John Smith’s audience] did believe in the spirit of the devil which, as everyone knows, is in all of us.”
Walter Lippman The Public Philosophy
In my latest National Post column I say apologies are nice, at least some of them, but what really matters is whether like Scrooge the person who claims to see the error of their ways leads a different life afterward.