In my latest Epoch Times column I say the EU mandating that all devices use the USB-C standard is a classic case of thinking just because something is annoying government should blunder in and mandate a uniform solution to one of life’s complexities.
“Knowing that a feeling exists is not the same as having the feeling.”
A friend paraphrasing John Stuart Mill (date not recorded).
“There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.”
“Mark Burnett on ‘Dateline NBC’” quoted as “Quotable Quotes” in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition July 2005
“By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient’s reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result? Even if a particular train of thought can be twisted so as to end in our favour, you will find that you have been strengthening in your patient the fatal habit of attending to universal issues and withdrawing his attention from the stream of immediate sense experiences.”
C.S. Lewis The Screwtape Letters
“If you don’t knit, bring a book.”
“Dorothy Parker’s advice” for surviving something terminally dull, quoted by John Ivison in National Post February 22, 2005
In a Loonie Politics piece I should have posted a couple of weeks ago I say it would be instructive to look back at old newspapers to see what did get covered, and how, as opposed to what turned out to matter and why.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the ongoing Canadian faith in government despite its incompetence on everything from navy caps to inflation brings its own punishment.
“Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not ‘This is a misfortune,’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’”
Marcus Aurelius, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail September 11, 2002