In my latest Epoch Times column I say the trendy ritual elite “land acknowledgements” that Canada is an illegitimate settler-colonial land-stealing oppressive patriarchal nightmare are socially destructive, hypocritical and false.
“Making decisions is a great liberator; each time you make a decision, you feel a load lifted from your shoulders.”
From William Bezanson, as one of the honourable mention entries in their readers’ “Thought du Jour” contest, in Globe & Mail Nov. 9, 2002
“Tension is poison.”
Charley Lau with Alfred Glossbrenner, The Winning Hitter: How to Play Championship Baseball
“It is only from a normal standpoint that all the nonsense of the world takes on something of the wild interest of wonderland.”
G.K. Chesterton’s Introduction to Fancies vs Fads quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #2 (Nov.-Dec. 2021)
His home town of Hearne, SK “is so small we couldn’t afford a village idiot – everyone had to take turns.”
Allan Fotheringham in Maclean’s Oct. 25, 1999
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the Bank of Canada’s one feasible and important job is to control inflation and it should not fall into the old Keynesian ditch and try to manage the economy instead or as well.
“What is the good of words if they aren’t important enough to quarrel over? Why do we choose one word more than another if there isn’t any difference between them? If you called a woman a chimpanzee instead of an angel, wouldn’t there be a quarrel about a word? If you’re not going to argue about words, what are you going to argue about? Are you going to convey your meaning by moving your ears?”
G.K. Chesterton “The Peacemaker” in The Ball and the Cross, quoted in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 #5 (May-June 2023)
“Cromwell was about to ravage the whole of Christendom; the royal family was lost and his own set for ever in power, but for a little grain of sand getting into his bladder. Even Rome was about to tremble beneath him. But, with this bit of gravel once there, he died, his family fell into disgrace, peace reigned and the king was restored.”
Pascal Pensées