“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”
Josh Billings, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail May 17, 2001
“The workmanship surpassed the material…”
Apollo’s palace, decorated by Vulcan, described in the Phaeton story in Thomas Bulfinch, Mythology of Greece and Rome
“the belief of French poststructuralism, exemplified by Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, that the ‘subject’ – the thinking, single agent, the ‘I’ of every sentence, was an illusion: all you had left was language, not mentality… Once there were writers, but now there is only what Foucault derisively called ‘the author function.’”
Robert Hughes, Culture of Complaint
“It just doesn’t work. This idea is off the tee and into the lake.”
Marc Henry, senior research manager for Angus Reid’s Calgary office, quoted in Ottawa Citizen May 15, 1999
In my latest Loonie Politics column I ridicule echo-chamber media that spent the entire hearing saying every decent person wanted Brett Kavanaugh voted down and expelled from decent society and the Republican Party was doing itself huge electoral harm over the issue, only to turn around and report that Republicans are keen to campaign on it in the Congressional midterms while Democrats want to avoid it.
“What is this life if, full of care,/ We have no time to stand and stare.”
“W.H. Davies (1871-1940) in Leisure”, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Social Studies in Globe & Mail November 11, 2008