In my latest National Post column I say the new Japanese drive-thru get-it-over-with funerals underline the emptiness of modernity.

"Strangely coinciding with human beings' ability to cooperate is our tendency to be extremely aggressive."

MSNBC Science June 5, 20125/6/12.

"This… is what is meant today by being broadminded: living on prejudices and never looking at them."

G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 5, 1928, quoted in Gilbert Magazine Vol. 9 #6 p. 18.

In my latest National Post column, I say the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse enters dangerous, familiar territory when it starts telling the Catholic Church what it should think.

"You can’t have both the penny and the bun."

David Warren in Ottawa Citizen Nov. 25, 2006

"That’s the whole story of pitching. Keep your life and your pitching real simple, and you’ll get along."

286-game winner Robin Roberts quoted in John Thorn and John Holway The Pitcher

"We have spent 200 years rediscovering the futility of man unredeemed by God - what G.K. Chesterton called the immense sadness of paganism."

British Columbia Report August 9, 1993 [I did not record the writer's name]