“There is a vulnerability about waking in a dark room and rediscovering despair.”
Spiro T. Agnew Go Quietly... or Else
“Most of you know that I’ve been around long enough to remember a good many political leaders and that I’ve studied all of their merits and in most cases it didn’t take long.”
“The Geezer’s Corner” by Dale Dawson in The Landowner August/September 2015
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Canada’s federal government increasingly reminds me of that 1928 classic imaginary hobo’s paradise.
In my latest National Post column I heap scorn on the federal Liberals’ ability to stuff us all into standardized human-stacking units and on their desire to.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say that instead of redoubling our fury at our partisan foes in the wake of a very narrow brush with disastrous chaos, we might all take a minute to improve the tone of our own thoughts and words.
In my closing remarks to the 2024 Economic Education Association of Alberta “Freedom Talk” conference in Red Deer on “The Decline of Western Civilization: Our Fate or Our Choice?” I urged people to go forth with joyful hope.
“When the tide is receding from the beach it is easy to have the illusion that one can empty the ocean by removing water with a pail.”
Rene Dubos, quoted in Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emergent Diseases in a World out of Balance
“It is one of the deep jokes of existence that very wise people and very ignorant people frequently say the same thing; perhaps it is the basis of democracy.”
G.K. Chesterton in Daily News Feb. 23, 1907, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 2 (Nov.-Dec. 2022)