In my latest Loonie Politics column I say we need to face the fact, and the implications, of large-scale pro-Hamas demonstrations in Canada and other Western nations by recent immigrants from places where horrific anti-Semitism is routine.
“‘Hermit hoar, in solemn cell,/ Wearing out life’s evening grey:/ Smite thy bosom, sage, and tell,/ What is bliss? and which the way?/ Thus I spoke; and speaking sigh’d;/ – scarce repressed the starting tear; – When the smiling sage reply’d – Come, my lad, and drink some beer.’”
Samuel Johnson, cited in D.J. Enright’s introduction to Johnson The History of Rasselas
“One can say that, had Mirabeau lived, the History of France and of the World had been different.”
Thomas Carlyle The French Revolution
“Wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.”
Elon Musk, widely quoted, not always verbatim, but Snopes has the relevant clip at https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-wokeness/
In my latest Epoch Times column I say efforts by House Republicans to replace their Speaker in the United States aren’t pretty, but at least there are principles involved… unlike what happened in Canada.
“I wanted to spit on his corpse, but he kept on not being dead”
The wife of a man convicted of murdering their six children, as “Quote of the week” in Maclean’s September 29, 2003
“I personally am inclined to approach [housework] the way governments treat dissent: Ignore it until it revolts.”
“Barbara Kingsolver American novelist (1955- )” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail Nov. 11, 2012
“I say you cannot really understand any myths till you have found that one of them is not a myth. Turnip ghosts mean nothing if there are not real ghosts. Forged bank-notes mean nothing if there are no real bank-notes. Heathen gods mean nothing, and must always mean nothing, to those of us that deny the Christian God.”
GKC, “The Priest of Spring,” in Alberto Manguel, ed., On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton