"As Mr. Pond knows, the last lesson of the wise man is that the fool is sometimes right."

Steve Miller in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6

In my latest National Post column I urge Justin Trudeau and Bill Morneau to get out of hot water on taxes by simplifying the system dramatically because economically smart policy is also politically smart policy here.

"If you can’t imitate him, don’t copy him."

Yogi Berra, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 4 (Jan./Feb. 2001)

"Vestigial remains of that Victorianism are everywhere around us. And memories of them persist even when the realities are gone, rather like an amputated limb that still seems to throb when the weather is bad. The sense of values lost may be as palpable as the values we do have."

Gertrude Himmelfarb, The De-moralization of Society

A backer kindly alerts me to a really nice review of The Environment: A True Story on CFACT, The Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. CFACT also runs Climate Depot, founded by Marc Morano, whose own documentary Climate Hustle also takes aim at global warming alarmism.

All well worth checking out.

My new documentary The Environment: A True Story is now available for purchase in DVD or digital form. Click here to get yours.

"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