“Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.”

Benjamin Franklin, quoted on Goodreads (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/51600-many-a-man-thinks-he-is-buying-pleasure-when-he)

“Three consecutive years in a row”

Commentator on TSN during the World Junior Gold Medal hockey game between Canada and Sweden Jan. 4, 1993

“The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.”

G.K. Chesterton, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 No. 2 (Oct.-Nov. 2000)

In my latest National Post column I deplore the conventional wisdom that in any showdown between Iran and the West, it is the West that lacks attractive options and must find some face-saving way to give in.

“After more than two thousand years, the mothers of India still frighten their naughty children by telling them that ‘Iskander will get them,’ and Iskander is none other than Alexander the Great…”

Hendrik Van Loon The Story of Mankind

“as any engineer or architect will confirm, there is no such thing as a perfect design. Every solution represents an unhappy compromise among conflicting objectives.”

Michael Rothschild, Bionomics: The Inevitability of Capitalism

In BOE Report I talk about a website that makes it easy to check Canadian government data for an increase in heat waves in Canadian cities over time… and not find one. If it’s all about the evidence, surely the lack of support for this particular claim should lead people to stop making it.