“That is informative merely about you, madam, not about the problem.”
Nero Wolfe to a client in Rex Stout The Mother Hunt regarding her thought processes.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say Canada is especially vulnerable to the chronic global phenomenon of oversold, over budget, underperforming megaprojects because a widespread conceit that our public sector is world-class leads us to neglect mundane public-sector accountability.
“The opinions of our enemies come nearer to the truth about us than do our own opinions.”
LaRochefoucauld, quoted in Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“I will not shut me from my kind,/ And, lest I stiffen into stone,/ I will not eat my heart alone,/ Nor feed with sighs a passing wind:/”
Alfred Lord Tennyson “In Memoriam” CVIII
My talk to the Dec. 11 Canadian Association for Equality “Momentum” conference, on the subject of politics being downstream from culture, is now available here (as is the entire conference). And if you’re thinking I haven’t learned much about Zoom setup in the last two years, well, the results speak for themselves… unfortunately.
“‘God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world,’ whispered Anne softly.”
The end of Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
In my latest Epoch Times column I mock the “Karen meets Marley” tale of people buying themselves an $825 Chanel advent calendar then ranting against it online.
“Keep a stiff upper chin.”
Sam Goldwyn, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #8 (July/August 2001)