A remarkable piece by Glenn Stanton on MercatorNet asks whether the puzzlingly high pregnancy rate among lesbians (yes, you read that correctly) doesn't call modern sexual orthodoxy into serious question.
"as messed up as a soup sandwich." Al LaPointe in a letter to the Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal July 14, 2004
In my latest National Post column I express dismay that yet another expansion of a social program, in this case EI, cost more than expected because paying people to do something caused more of them to do it. Of all things.
"what people enjoy is not the sense of being in control, but the sense of exercising control in difficult situations. It is not possible to experience a feeling of control unless one is willing to give up the safety of protective routines. Only when a doubtful outcome is at stake, and one is willing to influence that outcome, can a person really know whether she is in control." Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Flow
"Achieving justice in our own time is a task that taxes the resources of even the best societies. We should leave the past in the past." Thomas Sowell Is Reality Optional?
In my latest National Post column I say that closing ranks to defeat Marine Le Pen while ignoring the sources of the discontent she taps into would be to forget the lessons of Donald Trump if, indeed, people ever learned any.
Some people use "statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts—for support rather than illumination." Andrew Lang quoted in Scott Reid Lament for a Notion