In my latest National Post column, I warn that reflexively scoffing at the rubes who don’t like sending their money to Quebec and think they can stop it would be disastrous.
“No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.”
Dr. Johnson, quoted in Chronicles magazine August 1991
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the answer to declining social trust, including on COVID lockdowns and vaccines, isn’t to shame and silence people, it’s to have an intelligent and respectful discussion. Which apparently now makes me a kook.
“Beulah, peel me a grape!”
Mae West in I’m No Angel, quoted in Esprit de Corps Vol. 9 #2 (Dec. 2001) (see also https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024166/trivia)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the inflation currently breaking out because we printed too much money and produced too little wealth is a classic case of Hemingway’s line about going broke two ways.
“A ship wrecked sailor, buried on this coast/ Bids you set sail./ Full many a gallant bark, when we were lost,/ Weathered the gale.”
“a finely translated epigram in the Greek anthology” quoted in William James, Pragmatism and four essays from The Meaning of Truth
“I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.”
Susan Sontag, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail July 23 2001
“You’re so ugly you could be a modern art masterpiece.”
Gunnery Sargeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket]