“Every activity has its own specific goal. Pleasure very probably ensues in most cases when this goal is reached, but that is a different matter.”

I.A. Richards Principles of Literary Criticism

“Marvellous, old cock! I never realized Malvolio could be played as a bore.”

“what Lawrence Olivier once wickedly said to Alec Guinness” according to Tom Carson in The Atlantic Monthly September 2004

“How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that happens in life.”

Marcus Aurelius Meditations

“For they [John Smith’s audience] did believe in the spirit of the devil which, as everyone knows, is in all of us.”

Walter Lippman The Public Philosophy

If you’re concerned about good government and Western alienation, please consider joining us in Calgary this Friday and Saturday for the Economic Education Association of Alberta’s 2020 Freedom Conference “Firewall Plus: Alberta’s Options To Get A Fair Deal.”

We know a lot of people aren’t in Alberta or are concerned about traveling and gathering because of COVID-19. If you’re in either category, stay tuned for a virtual registration option. We hope to see you there, in person or on screen.

“‘In any look toward 2050, you have the problem of trying to calculate how many babies those who are currently unborn are going to be having. You can’t do that.’”

Nicholas Eberstadt, quoted in “The Population Dud,” The Catholic World Report, May, 2002 according to Gilbert! Magazine Vol. 5 #8 (July/August 2002)

In my latest National Post column I say apologies are nice, at least some of them, but what really matters is whether like Scrooge the person who claims to see the error of their ways leads a different life afterward.

“In another illustration of dwarfed ambition, Whitby bills itself as ‘Durham’s Business Centre.’”

Christie Blatchford in National Post November 25, 2000