In my latest Epoch Times column I say the apparently trivial cancellation of camping lessons in Montreal by Parks Canada is a worrying symptom of mental and moral rot.
“The feeling of having taken a wrong turning in life was made worse by the fact that he could not, for the life of him, remember having taken any turnings at all.”
“Charles Fernyhough, writer”, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail June 11, 2010
“I am unbelievably lucky: a. to be an American; b. To have my wife, the world’s finest human; c. To have never been severely or at least life-threateningly ill; d. To have never been in combat; e. To have had loving, caring, prosperous parents; f. To have an interesting, well-paid career; g. To have great friends, a great sister, nephew, niece, cousins, and, above all, son; h. Above all, to have learned to love and worship a God of love and understanding.”
“Benjamin J. Stein’s Diary” on his 60th birthday in The American Spectator February 2005
“It was Macaulay who remarked that it was not pleasant to live in times about which it was exciting to read.”
Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.”
“Says a passage in the Talmud” according to Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say if heads don’t roll over the latest revelations from the Mass Casualty Commission then we have pretty much given up on truth and decency.
“Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.”
Iris Murdoch, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail October 4, 2002
“If you don’t knit, bring a book.”
“Dorothy Parker’s advice” for surviving something terminally dull, quoted by John Ivison in National Post February 22, 2005