In my latest Loonie Politics column I berate Canadian “conservative” politicians for being as clueless about how to avoid wedge issues as they are spineless about how to approach them.
In my latest Epoch Times column I mock the notion that NATO can use “pressure” to stop Trudeau from being irresponsible, smug and daffy.
“You are what you do, not what you say you will do.”
Carl Jung, quoted as Standalone “Words of Wisdom” in Epoch Times email teaser December 15, 2022 [not further attributed].
“Why would a journal [The Lancet] committed to scientific rigor & medical ethics totally ignore the good reasons people have for stigmatizing untreated mental illness?/ Find out at my Substack!”
Tweet from Michael Shellenberger October 11, 2022 [https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1579914325405622272] pointing to his piece “Dark Side of Destigmatization/ No human being should be stigmatized. But untreated mental illness and addiction are dangerous and destructive, and should be.”
“An acquaintance who worked in United States Air Force intelligence tells the story of a pilot who was imprisoned in North Vietnam for many years, and lost eighty pounds and much of his health in a jungle camp. When he was released, one of the first things he asked for was to play a game of golf. To the great astonishment of his fellow officers he played a superb game, despite his emaciated condition. To their inquiries he replied that every day of his imprisonment he imagined himself playing eighteen holes, carefully choosing his clubs and approach and systematically varying the course. This discipline not only helped preserve his sanity, but apparently also kept his physical skills intact.”
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Flow [though if I spent every day imagining myself playing what passes for golf in my life I assure you it would not help preserve what passes for sanity in it]
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the 2023 federal budget is exactly what you’d expect from people who think we can’t afford not to spend beyond our means in good times and bad.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say all the people who thought replacing the McGuinty Liberals with “Conservatives” would make a difference to Ontario’s big-government path have been sorely disappointed.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say feeble proposals for reforming Canada’s ailing socialized medicine actually make things worse by denying that the patient is really ill.