“only a quarrel can interrupt a good argument”
G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 3 #5 (March 2000)
“‘What fun it would be,’ he [Mustapha Mond, Resident World Controller of Western Europe] thought, ‘if one didn’t have to think about happiness.’”
Aldous Huxley Brave New World
“Once again, you and your editors show that Gilbert Keith Chesterton is the most important man not living in the world today.”
Letter from William Cassell of Poteau, Oklahoma in Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 5 # 3 (Dec. 2001)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I condemn the Liberals for promising us the moon on health care and climate without explaining how they’ll lasso it and haul it down or why, if they know how to perform such lovely miracles, they didn’t do either at any point during their past four years in power.
“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
Albert Einstein, quoted in Jon Winokur Zen to Go
“The anointed don’t like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy ‘solutions’ that get rid of the whole problem - at least in their imagination.”
Thomas Sowell Is Reality Optional?
In my latest Loonie Politics column I urge Doug Ford to put aside populist bluster and take advice from the experts who’ve spoken at our Economic Education Association of Alberta conferences on fixing problems in government by relying on sound ideas.
Yes, my CFRA appearance has moved from Friday at 1:30 to Wednesday at 12:30 at least for now.