In my latest National Post column I say the obvious reason Jason Kenney and Erin O’Toole are facing party revolts and ugly polling numbers is that they have abandoned conservatism for opportunism.
“I think you’re the opposite of a paranoid. I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.”
Woody Allen, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail June 2, 2003 [and yes, we’re all feeling squeamish about Allen now but it’s still a good line].
“A neurosis is a secret you don’t know you’re keeping.”
Kenneth Tynan quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail February 4, 2005
In my latest piece for NP Platformed (subscription only, so please get one if you haven’t already) I deplore the tendency of courts to uphold breaches of our rights on sociological not legal grounds.
In my latest National Post column I say thinking you’ll win the drug war by eliminating one major dealer is like thinking you’ll get people to stop eating by closing their current grocery store.
“Paranoia: It could be sneaking up on you!”
Another of my own would-be witticisms, from January 2nd 1999.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the answer to declining social trust, including on COVID lockdowns and vaccines, isn’t to shame and silence people, it’s to have an intelligent and respectful discussion. Which apparently now makes me a kook.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the inflation currently breaking out because we printed too much money and produced too little wealth is a classic case of Hemingway’s line about going broke two ways.