A brief excerpt from a chess instructional video by GM Ben Finegold. His comments on chess are great... if you like chess. (And you can find lots of them on YouTube.) But this is a rather wistful reflection on how much childhood has changed that I think is of far wider interest.
“that was like trying to teach a goldfish how to play basketball over the phone.”
Somebody posting as “TouchOGray” June 25 2008 (in an online thread about whether it’s OK to leave a bicycle in an unheated shed for the winter)
In Convivium I say the NAC production of Roch Carrier’s “The Hockey Sweater” is a surprising, delightful and morally intelligent improvement on the original.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the Trudeau administration’s $1.6 billion oil industry bailout is cunning politics driven by lousy economics.
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”
Archilochus, a 7th century BC Greek poet, quoted by Paul P. Streeton in Gerald M. Meier and Dudley Seers Pioneers in Development
“One lesson and one lesson only, history may be said to repeat with distinctness [and that is] that the world is build somehow on moral foundations.“
“19th-century historian J.A. Froude” quoted by Pat Buchanan and J. Gordon Muir in R. Emmett, Tyrrell Jr., ed. Orthodoxy: The American Spectator Anniversary Anthology