In my latest National Post column I say government regulation of Facebook would actually make a bad situation worse, that it's censorship, and that self-control beats state control.
"A fish stinks first from the head."
Adage about leadership, widely quoted and attributed.
The book "A Right to Arms", companion volume to our 2016 documentary on Canadians' historic right to self-defence, is now available through my online store. Click here to order a copy.
The "Israel for Canadians" documentary fundraising campaign on Kickstarter just concluded and, I'm sorry to say, fell well short of its target. So it won't get made. At least not this year and perhaps not exactly as described.
I'm very grateful to everyone who did back it. (Kickstarter being an "all or nothing" platform those who pledged through it won't get charged; you don't need to do anything. And I'll be in touch with those who contributed through other channels about refunds.) I'm also grateful to all those who worked to help publicize it, through social media and otherwise.
Over the next few months I'll be giving some thought to why the funding effort failed, from flaws in the fundraising campaign to defects in documentary design and presentation. I'm convinced the cause is important so I'm not by any means giving up on it. But I apologize to those whose hopes were raised by a project I wasn't able to make happen, at least this time.
Again, thanks very much to everyone who did back and help promote it.
"the following are the possible ways for the listener to react to the communication: 1. he may accept the speaker and accept his statement; 2. he may accept the speaker but reject his statement; 3. he may reject the speaker but accept his statement; 4. he may reject the speaker and reject his statement. A person with what [Michigan State U.’s Milton] Rokeach calls a ‘closed mind’ is able to have only reactions (1) and (4)…
S.I. Hayakawa Language in Thought and Action
"I beg you to believe in the most ridiculous of all superstitions: that humanity is at the centre of the universe, the fulfiller or the frustrator of the grandest dreams of God Almighty. If you can believe that and make others believe it, human beings might stop treating each other like garbage."
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in a 1970 commencement address according to "Thought du Jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail June 11, 2003
"tough as goat guts"
Former New York Times editor Howell Raines (of his predecessor James Reston), quoted by Robert Fulford in National Post March 26, 2004