“the millions of Canadians who are unbanked or underbanked”

Bizarre neologisms from the National Post February 2, 2023

In my latest Epoch Times column, I ask that people apply their vaunted “evidence-based decision-making” to the claim that there are hundreds of unmarked graves of aboriginal kids killed in residential schools in cruel or callous ways or stop making it.

“The French expression qui s’excuse s’accuse...”

John O’Sullivan in National Review May 1, 1995

“Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.”

W.H. Auden, quoted as “Thought du jour” in Globe & Mail March 7, 2002

“To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.”

George Santayana, as the header quotation on Chapter 64 in George Jonas Beethoven’s Mask

“The symphony in B quiet”

One of mine, from May 1, 2002, regarding aggressively modernist music.

“always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?”

Gabriel Syme in G.K. Chesterton The Man Who Was Thursday

“History is still in the hands of individuals, who by their actions perform God’s miracles.”

James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg The Great Reckoning