My final appearance on the show so thanks to all who listened, to Anthony for being a great host, and to all those behind the scenes who made it happen.
“leisure: a word that means three totally different things: 1. being allowed to do something, 2. being allowed to do anything, 3. being allowed to do nothing.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News July 23, 1927, quoted in “Chesternitions” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #2 (10-11/03)
“It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the Earth.”
John Steinbeck, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail December 8 2004
In the National Post I remember as always those who gave all their tomorrows for my today, and try to treat it as the precious gift that it is.
On The News Forum with Tanya Granic Allen I discussed why we remember on November 11 and what we should remember. (You can also watch it on Facebook here.)
In my latest Mercatornet column I find good news amid the snarling and sneering about the 2020 Presidential race: Trump’s increased vote among blacks and other minorities shows that the bitterly divisive horror story about America’s hopeless “systemic” racism is not true and is increasingly not believed even by the supposed victims.
“The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.”
Eli Wiesel Night
“one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at 21 that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby (re Tom Buchanan who as a star of the Yale football team had been “a national figure in a way”)