Thinking "Outside the box is one thing – outside the brain is another entirely."

The Report magazine March 3, 2003 [I failed to record the author]

“Mr. Swinburne does not hang up his stocking on the eve of the birthday of Victor Hugo. Mr. William Archer does not sing carols descriptive of the infancy of Ibsen outside people’s doors in the snow…. The strange truth about the matter is told in the very word ‘holiday.’… It is hard to see at first sight why so human a thing as leisure and larkiness should always have a religious origin. Rationally there appears no reason why we should not sing and give each other presents in honour of anything--the birth of Michael Angelo or the opening of Euston Station.  But it does not work. As a fact, men only become greedily and gloriously material about something spiritualistic."

G.K. Chesterton Heretics

"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."

Noelie Altito
 

In my latest Mercatornet article I say the problem with "ethical debates" is they always end up saying yes to whatever departure from traditional morality is under discussion.