In my latest National Post column I quote two ponderously preposterous assurances on the pandemic a year ago to ask why no experience of their own failure ever convinces Canadian authorities to speak more humbly or think more carefully.
“Pericles said, twenty-four centuries ago: ‘Come, gentlemen, we sit too long on trifles.’ We do, indeed!”
Dale Carnegie How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
In my latest National Post column I say Erin O’Toole’s boast about being pragmatic and moderate amounts to saying he has no convictions and cannot be counted on by anyone for anything, and trying to make it sound like an achievement. But it’s not.
“a lion can spot a limp.”
Quoted in an email from a reader this fall, on the subject of foreign policy but sourced to “something I heard an ex-convict say about the danger of exhibiting weakness in prison.”
In my latest Epoch Times column, I say recent revelations about national security breaches and governmental nonchalance ought to worry Canadians a lot more than they apparently do.
“This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.”
Edmund Burke on French Revolutionaries, quoted in Robert Bork The Tempting of America (and also though slightly less completely in William D. Gairdner Constitutional Crack-Up)
In my latest National Post column I say the puzzling inability even of many high-tech firms to provide a PDF version of the paper manual they put in the box suggests we’re struggling with the green digital economy of the 21st century.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the casual and inconsistent way governments keep shutting down our lives betrays their conceited conviction that we weren’t doing anything important anyway.