“but that is the way fear serves us: It always sides with the thing we are afraid of.”
George MacDonald The Princess and the Goblin
“I hate a man who swallows [food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher matters.”
Charles Lamb, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail December 20, 2002
“‘There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.’”
C.S. Lewis, quoted by Douglas Jackson in Gilbert! magazine January-February 2002
“His head, once shaven, was covered with stubble, uniform with his chin, like a clipped yew in a neglected garden.”
Evelyn Waugh Scoop
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the Trudeau administration’s attack on the rights of Parliament is no less dangerous for being the result of arrogant ignorance not clever conspiracy.
“When I was 17, I read a quote somewhere that went something like: ‘If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.’ It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And when the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
Steve Jobs’ June 122005 commencement address at Stanford University, reprinted in National Post June 30, 2005
On June 23 I was on Global News Radio 640 with Alex Pierson and John Mraz to discuss more unmarked graves near a residential school, Ontario slowly winding down COVID restrictions and the Trudeau administration seeking to quash Parliamentary privileges over COVID and Chinese espionage.
“They hate and detest war as a thing manifestly brutal, and yet practised by man more constantly than by any kind of beast.”
Thomas More Utopia