In my latest Epoch Times column I say calling for Canada to become a republic because of Meghan Markle’s Oprah interview, or for any other reason, misses the point that it already is one.
“I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking’s something you can’t do judiciously, unless you keep in practice. Now, sir, we’ll talk if you like. I’ll tell you right out, I’m a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk.”
Kaspar Gutman, “the Fat Man”, in The Maltese Falcon
“No possible complexity which we can give to our picture of the universe can hide us from God… We read in Revelation of Him that sat on the throne ‘from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away.’ It may happen to any of us at any moment. In the twinkling of an eye, in a time to small to be measured, and in any place, all that seems to divide us from God can flee away, vanish, leaving us naked before Him, like the first man, like the only man, as if nothing but He and I existed. And since that contact cannot be avoided for long, and since it means either bliss or horror, the business of life is to learn to like it. That is the first and great commandment.”
C.S. Lewis God in the Dock
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.”
“Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish author” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail March 20, 2012
In my latest National Post article I say Meghan Markle’s victim act is neither useful nor interesting.
“You would think men had sworn allegiance to crime!”
Jupiter in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (specifically the 1st story “Lycaon” about a werewolf )
In the piece I just wrote for the National Post
I deplore that the woke now think Seuss should be toast.
“All this has been rather silly, because as someone says, when you have an idea it has to be both feasible and effective.”
Chess coach Dan Heisman in his video “The Maung Lesson” around 17:40.