In my latest National Post column I say we won't get helpful answers on the Toronto mass shooting unless we ask the right questions.

"'Do you believe in God, Winston?' ‘No.’ ‘Then what is it, this principle that will defeat us?’ ‘I don’t know. The spirit of Man.’ ‘And do you consider yourself a man?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors.'"

O'Brien and Winston Smith in George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four

 "He has planted his last potato. Han har satt sin sista potatis."

“Idioms from Sweden” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 8 #4 (Jan.-Feb. 2005)

In my latest National Post column I call the availability of a genuine Stalin statue on e-Bay a reminder of a strange double standard about evil on the left.

"If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat."
St. Paul, 2 Thessalonians 3:10