“bother-in-law”
Me at some unspecified time [and not about my own brother-in-law, a splendid chap, but I modestly consider it too funny to omit to spare his possible hurt feelings]
“bother-in-law”
Me at some unspecified time [and not about my own brother-in-law, a splendid chap, but I modestly consider it too funny to omit to spare his possible hurt feelings]
In the Epoch Times this week I praised Tom Holland’s Dominion for arguing compellingly that values we consider universal, such as “human rights”, are actually specifically Judeo-Christian in origin and I warned that they are unlikely to survive the ongoing loss of faith.
In my latest Epoch Times column I said the scariest thing about the current debate over social programs is that there isn’t one. We tried 30 years ago, realized it was hard, gave up and spent our way to economic and social ruin.
“To say [Garry] Geisel is appealing, of course, is to mean it only in the strictly legal sense.”
Linda Williamson in Ottawa Sun Oct. 4, 1999
In my latest Loonie Politics column I argue that our politicians are dangerously helpless in the face of explicit support for antisemitic terrorism not from active malevolence but because it’s a form of evil their woke “paradigm” or worldview can’t process… yet.
“If you think wrong, you go wrong.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News September 12, 1914, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2008)
“Like many of the cocksure young men who forage about cities in apparent contentment and who express their cynicism in supercilious slang, Escott was shy and lonely.”
Sinclair Lewis Babbitt
“To look to the future is merely to forge a testimonial from the babe unborn.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Nov. 3, 1917, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 2 (Nov.-Dec. 2022)