“Gentlemen, listen to me slowly.”
One of “Still More Samuel Goldwynners” in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #1 (September 2005)
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the mind-numbing vulgarity of Doug Ford’s comments about vaccine availability was just the beginning of their mind-numbing qualities.
In my latest Mercatornet column I say Biden’s hackneyed Inaugural speech may do no harm. But it did not rise to the occasion like, say, Lincoln’s magnificent Second Inaugural and did not even really seem to try.
In my latest National Post column I say the federal fiscal update didn’t misrepresent reality, it abandoned it entirely.
“It is the memory of the meaning of a word which is the life of the word. The Crusade without the Cross is a dead word.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Jan. 12, 1924, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol 10 #5 (March 2007)
Christie Heffner “told the [Chicago] Sun-Times, ‘pornography is a word used by critics to demonize sexual images they don’t approve of.’ Failing to follow up properly, the reporters neglected to ask Ms. Hefner why she thinks ‘to demonize’ is a bad thing.”
Gilbert! magazine Vol. 3 #8, July/August 2000
“[They use] statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination.”
“Andrew Lang, Scottish humourist” quoted in Scott Reid Lament for a Notion
In my latest National Post column I express gratitude for all the things that make me happy normally and are now helping me through the quarantine including (my life is so interesting words may fail you here) a brilliantly designed new power bar protecting my vital computer lifeline to the world.