“‘It’s corn!,’ ‘Dark Brandon’ and ‘girl explaining’: A look at the most notable memes of 2022”
Subject line/hed on email teaser from “NBC News Stop Stories” 23/12/22 [and noteworthy to me because I totally missed all three and wasn’t sorry]
“Why no singer has replaced Lady Gaga... early Gaga blew out the circuits of what pop once was. No superstar singer since her has been as thrillingly, commandingly meaningless.”
Email teaser from The Atlantic December 18, 2022
In my latest Epoch Times column I say we should get back to the values that made Canada great starting by celebrating them with gratitude on July 1.
“... the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided.”
Opening text to movie Midway.
In my latest National Post column I say the “inclusive” teacher who told a Muslim kid to celebrate pride or get of Canada exposes not just reflexive intolerance but a deep, unresolvable contradiction in multiculturalism.
“My mother was already out of it by this time (not that she was ever deeply into it)…”
Mordecai Richler Barney’s Version
“For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite/ The man that mocks at it and sets it light.”
John of Gaunt in Shakespeare Richard II I.iii
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
Widely available online attributed to J.R.R. Tolkien, which is partly true, but more properly it is the character Sador to Túrin in The Children of Húrin acccording to this commendably persnickety website: https://thetolkienist.com/2014/10/10/thanks-babble-get-10-tolkien-quotes-wrong/