In my latest National Post column I say if we let our leaders get away with obvious lies it will prove fatal to self-government. And sorry, I’m two days late posting it so the column is missing the latest greasy twists and turns, but they only add to the list of obvious lies told after another.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I explain how our finance minister can look so happy over his appalling fiscal “snapshot”.
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and, instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
Samuel Johnson, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail Nov. 5 1999
“breeding rather than feeding”
John Mercel Robson (my father) summarizing the nature/nurture argument in a letter in 1993
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
Not Albert Einstein. As he is a quotation magnet it has stuck to him quite often, but apparently it was actually sociology professor William Bruce Cameron in 1963 (see https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/26/everything-counts-einstein/). Would it be any more clever if it had been Einstein?
In my latest National Post column I say when the rule of law no longer applies either to the powerful or to the mob it’s not social justice or any other kind.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say we can have a happy Canada Day if we’re sensible about history and human nature.