"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?" T.S. Eliot, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe and Mail January 31, 2012
"If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head." G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News April 20, 1907, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 11 #6 (April-May 2008)
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?