"Now there is an invitation that will NOT cause a stampede."
The cat in Red Dwarf, responding to Dave Lister's alarmed "Hey guys, look at me body", quoted on www.shortlist.com/entertainment/tv/50-best-quotes-from-red-dwarf#gallery-14
"All our doing must take place within the context of Being, with its mystery present and alive to us. Otherwise we are simply scurrying around aimlessly in the mazes of our own contrivance."
William Barrett The Illusion of Technique
"as trade guru Sylvia Ostry always says, given a choice between conspiracy and cock-up, bet on cock-up every time."
William Watson in Ottawa Citizen Oct. 19 2004
The Environment: A True Story is now available on YouTube in shorter chapters as well as the full film. I'm pleased to say the complete documentary has already had over 1200 views in just over a week which for a 160 minute feature is very satisfying.
For those who find it more convenient to watch (or easier to keep track of where you've gotten to in it) in shorter segments it's also now posted as a YouTube playlist.
In my latest National Post column I explain why the federal LIberals' "sunny ways", and progressives' penchant for "compassionate" improvisation generally, are divisive and leave people feeling cheated.
"Bigotry is an incapacity to conceive seriously the alternative to a proposition. It has nothing whatever to do with belief in the proposition itself."
G.K. Chesterton in Lunacy and Letters quoted in Dale Ahlquist and Peter Floriani, Chesterton University Student Handbook
"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."
Dame Edith Sitwell, quoted as "Thought du jour" in Social Studies in Globe and Mail Sept. 29, 2011
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not more so."
Albert Einstein, quoted by Burton Malkiel A Random Walk Down Wall Street