"Complexity is the last refuge of the scoundrel."

John Gross of the New York Times, quoted by John O'Sullivan in National Review December 25, 1995 (with specific reference to inherent tendency of bad theories to be complex)

In my latest Looniepolitics column I use recent NDP fundraising emails to illustrate just what's wrong with the political class's vision of the good life.

In my latest National Post column I defend the superhero fantasy scifi film Guardians of the Galaxy 2 against charges of racist sexist blah blah blah.

"Few human acts are so difficult as to say mea culpa, to face facts when they conflict with long-held philosophical views. People will do so only when they suffer severe personal injury if they persist in error. That is why businessmen, who may be bankrupted if they refuse to face facts, are one of the few groups that develop the habit of doing so."

Milton Friedman’s Preface to William Simon A Time for Truth p. xiii.
 

In my latest Looniepolitics column I say the attack on Land of the Silver Birch shows the PC revolution devouring its children... and everything else.

In my latest National Post column I say the new Japanese drive-thru get-it-over-with funerals underline the emptiness of modernity.

"This… is what is meant today by being broadminded: living on prejudices and never looking at them."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 5, 1928, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6 p. 18.

"If a man wants to worship the Life Force merely because it is a Force, he may very naturally worship it in the electric battery. I am tempted to say it will serve him right if he eventually worships the life force in the electric chair."

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 5 # 3 (Dec. 2001)