In my latest Epoch Times column I repeat myself on purpose on the mindless decades-long repetition of obtuse calls to dump more money into our broken health care system instead of reforming it.
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
Elbert Hubbard, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email January 26, 20/22
“It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.”
Eddie Cantor, according to www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eddie_cantor_309843
“In all my life I have met only one person who claims to have seen a ghost. And the interesting thing about the story is that the person disbelieved in the immortal soul before she saw the ghost and still disbelieves after seeing it.”
Start of C.S. Lewis Miracles
“’I remember back on the farm... my mother calling to me... “Jon, you’re boring the cattle!” Ever see a cow yawn?’ ‘Now you’re boring the cat.’”
Dialogue with Jon talking then Garfield thinking in Garfield cartoon in Ottawa Citizen May 16, 2002
In my latest Loonie Politics column I draw on the wisdom of G.K. Chesterton to unravel the attitudes of populist and their opponents to accountability.
“To be in a romance is to be in uncongenial surroundings. To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance.”
“On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family,” in G.K. Chesterton Brave New Family
“The same sense of the relentlessly interwoven texture of human fate was touched by the schoolboy who said: ‘Dad, I hate war.’ ‘Why, son?’ ‘Because war makes history, and I hate history.’”
Marshall McLuhan Understanding Media