In my latest Epoch Times column I say a smashed statue is a sadly fitting monument to a society that lets mobs trample over debate and voting to smash memorials because they can’t tell Queen Victoria from Hitler.
“As for Gussie Fink-Nottle, many an experienced undertaker would have been deceived by his appearance and started embalming on sight.”
P.G. Wodehouse, quoted by Joseph Bottum in First Things #156 (October 2005)
“but that is the way fear serves us: It always sides with the thing we are afraid of.”
George MacDonald The Princess and the Goblin
“I hate a man who swallows [food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.”
Charles Lamb, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail December 20, 2002
“His head, once shaven, was covered with stubble, uniform with his chin, like a clipped yew in a neglected garden.”
Evelyn Waugh Scoop
“They hate and detest war as a thing manifestly brutal, and yet practised by man more constantly than by any kind of beast.”
Thomas More Utopia
In my latest National Post column I say classes where students of one race only are taught material by authors of once race only by teachers of one race only is still segregation and still wrong practically and morally.
“Playwright Neil Simon once described one of his characters as so uptight he even had clenched hair.”
Mary Janigan in Maclean’s April 26, 2004