In my latest National Post column I say the Prime Minister isn't being inconsistent or confused about allegedly groping a reporter 18 years ago; he's consistently denying the existence of truth.
"Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle."
Woody Allen, quoted as "Thought du jour" in "Social Studies" in Globe & Mail Feb. 15, 2011 [I realize Allen has been revealed as a pretty unsavoury character... but it's still a good line even if it could fairly be applied to him]
"He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities."
Robertson Davies Fifth Business
“The motto ‘Do the right thing and let God take care of the consequences’ makes sense only on the assurance that he will take care of the consequences. Without that assurance, doing the right thing means taking care of the consequences – or trying to.”
J. Budziszewski in First Things June-July 2002
"so smooth that he made ice feel like sandpaper."
Description of a criminal by a senior Scotland Yard type in "The Missing Necklace" by Jacques Futrelle (in Alan K. Russell, ed., Rivals of Sherlock Holmes vol. 2).
"The questions are not how or when we die. It is how and why we live."
Ron McCloskey in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #5 (March 2002)
In my latest LooniePolitics column I argue that while incumbent parties traditionally lose seats in U.S. midterm elections, the Democrats bring plenty of flaws to 2018 to offset those of the GOP.
“Now in the year 1066 the grandson of a Norse pirate was recognized as king of England. Why should we ever read fairy stories, when the truth of history is so much more interesting and entertaining?”
Hendrick Van Loon The Story of Mankind.