“I was always taught to respect my elders, but it’s getting harder and harder to find one.”

Emailed by a friend July 1, 2023 with no further attribution; it is found in many places online and I do not know who invented it.

In my latest Loonie Politics column I say Justin Trudeau has poisoned our politics because, without even realizing it, he’s so belligerent and uninterested in policy that he’s always looking for a fight and if none is to be found he starts one.

“Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.”

Herman Hesse, quoted as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” without further attribution in Epoch Times email teaser August 9, 2023

In my latest National Post column I warn my posterity, and yours, why artificial intelligence is far and away the most dangerous and urgent problem they face.

After Condé was killed in battle in March 1569 “leadership of the Huguenot movement devolved on Coligny… under Coligny’s direction, the movement weathered the storm, and acquired a new unity and cohesion. This nearly great man – symbolized for contemporaries by the inseparable toothpick…”

J.H. Elliott Europe Divided 1559-1598

“the fate of all mankind I see is in the hands of fools”

King Crimson “Epitaph” from In the Court of the Crimson King (1969)

In my latest Epoch Times column I ask how governments can aspire to fix the weather, the economy and our morals when they can’t even figure out how not to block all our driveways every time it snows hard.

“Lorsque notre haine est trop vive, elle nous met au-dessous de ceux que nous haïssons.”

La Rochefoucauld “Réflexions morales #338” in Maximes