“a person who drank cyanide because he felt a compelling desire to do so would also be considered rational under the present aim standard. The obvious difficulty of this standard is that it permits virtually any behavior to be considered rational merely by asserting that a person prefers it.”

Robert H. Frank, Passions Within Reason: The Strategic Role of the Emotions (criticizing the philosophical “present aim theory” doctrine of rationality, which is essentially the economists’ “revealed preference” doctrine although he doesn’t say so):

In my latest Epoch Times column I note the tragicomic contrast between the cosmic aspirations and vaulting self-regard of our politicians and their incapacity to discharge even basic functions of government.

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you there.”

“Says a passage in the Talmud” according to Daniel Bell, The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties

“How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?”

Elbert Hubbard according to www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Elbert_Hubbard

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”

Thomas à Kempis, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email April 20, 2022.

“Nearly every line he penned was an invitation to slumber.”

Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything (about “Geological writer James Hutton”)

“Men have no right to complain that they are naturally feeble and short-lived, or that it is chance and not merit that decides their destiny. On the contrary, reflection will show that nothing exceeds or surpasses the powers with which nature has endowed mankind, and that it is rather energy they lack than strength or length of days.”

Sallust, The Jugurthine War

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say if heads don’t roll over the latest revelations from the Mass Casualty Commission then we have pretty much given up on truth and decency.