“By his own admission, [actor Stephen] Fry can’t dance and couldn’t carry a tune if it had handles.”
Rod Dreher in National Review May 31, 1999
In my latest National Post column I ridicule the notion that Canada must bring in half a million immigrants a year to build homes for the half-million immigrants we bring in a year to build homes for all the immigrants.
“Several excuses are always less convincing than one.”
Aldous Huxley, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail March 18, 2005
In my latest Epoch Times column I take aim at Orwellian social justice as is unjust, antisocial and un-Canadian.
“They should have learned to relax some, starting in training camp. It should be fun.”
Kenny Stabler Snake (specifically about the Houston Oilers and New Orleans Saints, who were tense because they felt they had to play extra hard not to lose, whereas his Oakland Raiders expected to win).
“He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.”
#3 in “Gilbert!’s Top 10 More Bad Puns” in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 6 #7 (June 2003)
“The commonplace axiom that the ‘devil is in the details’ is generally wrong. The more often correct axiom holds that the ‘terror is in the trends’.”
Colin S. Gray Canadians in a Dangerous World
“The simple truth would still cause a considerable sensation. It is the one shock for which the world is still waiting.”
G.K. Chesterton in New Witness January 6, 1923, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #3 (Jan.-Feb. 2022)