Oh look, a Maclean’s columnist calls me a “sophomoric… absent-minded, AFD defending, climate change denying Carrot Top” for defending free speech.

“The oldest rule in economics, [U.S.] CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin said on Tuesday, is ‘we cannot do everything.’”

Marcus Gee in Globe & Mail August 28, 2003

In my latest National Post column I say calls to make handguns illegal in a city in response to criminals using illegal handguns for illegal murders make no sense.

“For Wit and Judgment often are at strife,/ Tho’ meant each other’s Aid, like Man and Wife.”

Alexander Pope “An Essay on Criticism”

“I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself."

G. K. Chesterton, quoted on Thinkexist.com

“Few Christian thinkers have so well understood [as Luther] the abyss of despair that is the alternative to the utterly gratuitous love of God in Christ.”

Richard John Neuhaus in First Things January 2004

Employee: “Sorry about missing that meeting, sir. You must think I’m a complete idiot.”

Boss: “No, of course I don’t. You’re much too lazy to complete anything.”

"Real Life Adventures" cartoon in Montreal Gazette July 9, 2002

“Only miracle is plain; it is the ordinary that groans with the unutterable weight of glory.”

Robert Farrar Capon The Supper of the Lamb