"Spoon me with a gag"
OK, I did say this, on reading a January 2007 news story about a woman in Sydney, Australia who laughed so hard while eating spaghetti that she swallowed a teaspoon (she was OK after medical intervention)
"Truth is not only stranger, but much more blood-curdling than fiction."
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News Dec. 31 1921, quoted in “Chesterton Rewrites more of the Classic Lines” in Gilbert Magazine July-August 20077-8/07 p. 37
In my latest National Post column I say you don't get the poor nice things, including trendy ones like organic food, by price controls that crush entrepreneurs.
A recent weather network article made outlandish claims about man-made climate change, including that average summer temperatures in Ottawa would rise from 20 to 27 degrees Centigrade by 2200 unless by giving up fossil fuels we limited it to 24 degrees. How does one counter such outlandish claims?
"Only through scrutiny of the past can society descry the limitations of human nature.”
Russel Kirk The Conservative Mind
“in all their actions all men do in fact aim at what they think good.”
Aristotle The Politics
“If you want to succeed, it would be wise for you to choose your beliefs carefully, rather than walking around like a piece of flypaper, picking up whichever belief sticks.”
Anthony Robbins Unlimited Power