“But blind stupidity is not one of the virtues…”
Dr. Bocker in John Wyndham The Kraken Wakes
“Recall the recipe for unicorn stew: first, get a unicorn.”
Richard John Neuhaus in First Things #146 October 2004 [ridiculing Robert Reich’s formula for liberal electoral victory in the U.S.]
“We have been accused of hostility to the scientist, when we are merely hostile to the materialist.”
G.K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News May 9, 1931, quoted in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 # 4 March-April 2022
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the death of Rex Murphy is a terrible loss especially because we have also lost the kind of place he held in our national life.
“men dying in agonies to find a place [the North Pole] where no man can live – a place only interesting because it is supposed to be the meeting-place of some lines that do not exist.”
G.K. Chesterton in Heretics, quoted by Mary DeMarco in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 #1 (September 2000) [about how we laugh at men who died looking for Christ’s tomb but celebrate those who died looking for the North Pole].
In my latest Loonie Politics column I cite the Bank of Canada’s inability to make a $20 bill featuring King Charles III in under five years as evidence that government in Canada is broken.
“The fact that I suppress what I know and pretend not to know it, even though I do know it, does not keep my buried knowledge from influencing my actions – but, since I suppress it, it distorts my thinking and influences my actions in a perverse way.”
J. Budziszewski “The Underground Thomist” May 8, 2023 [https://www.undergroundthomist.org/things-i-had-to-learn
In my latest Epoch Times column, I condemn Ontario public-sector unions who support pro-Hamas protests, which is not merely a violation of their mandate but also a gross affront to their supposedly progressive values.