In my latest National Post column I say the search for life in space is boooring because only life with photosynthesis is interesting and even if we find it, which seems highly unlikely, it won’t solve any of our moral or even technological problems here on Earth.
In my latest Epoch Times column I warn that the Liberals are taking appalling risks in charging forward with hugely ambitious new projects from a crumbling economic and fiscal position.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say it’s a revealing and very scary totalitarian detail that the “People’s Liberation Army” is a branch of the Communist Party rather than the Chinese government (with h/t to Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg’s Hidden Hand: Exposing How the Chinese Communist Party is Reshaping the World for this disquieting fact).
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the exceptionally rude rhetoric Chinese “diplomats” are aiming even at the United States suggests that this ugly regime thinks its time to strike has come.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say if our government is to get past its baby steps in the right direction on the Chinese crackdown on Hong Kong, it has to rethink its comforting illusions about the world.
“The pain in my soul is unbearable. I keep asking myself the same unsolvable question: If my assault rifle took people’s lives, it means that I, Mikhail Kalashnikov, ... son of a farmer and Orthodox Christian am responsible for people’s deaths. The longer I live, the more often that question gets into my brain, the deeper I go in my thoughts and guesses about why the Almighty allowed humans to have devilish desires of envy, greed and aggression. Everything changes, only a man and his thinking remain unchanged: he’s just as greedy, evil, heartless and restless as before!”
Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 assault rifle in “a regretful letter” to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, shortly before his death at age 94, quoted in the Ottawa Citizen Jan. 14, 2014 (apparently a spokesman for the Patriarch replied “If the weapon is used to defend the Motherland, the Church supports both its creators and the servicemen using it.”)