This week I was on “The Other Side of the Story” on America Out Loud News with Tom Harris and Todd Royal to discuss CDN and all things climate.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say real “remembrance” must include remembering to be ready for the next round of big trouble in our little world.
“Everyone pretends to be strong, everyone pretends to be wise, and in the wonderful motto of Robert Musil, ‘if it were not so hard to distinguish stupidity from talent, progress, hope, or improvement, no one would want to be stupid.’”
David Warren in Ottawa Citizen July 31, 2004 [prompted by something Bill Clinton said to the DNC about being strong and smart]
“First ponder, then dare.”
Helmuth von Moltke, quoted in J.W. Marriott Jr. and Kathi Ann Brown The Spirit to Serve
“Devil-worshipping Polish influencer ‘Satan’s doll’ charged with hacking parents to death with machete”
From Human Events March 4, 2024 and my “Who saw that one coming?” file [https://humanevents.com/2024/03/04/devil-worshipping-polish-influencer-satans-doll-charged-with-hacking-parents-to-death-with-machete]
“bother-in-law”
Me at some unspecified time [and not about my own brother-in-law, a splendid chap, but I modestly consider it too funny to omit to spare his possible hurt feelings]
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say the repellent UN “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territories occupied since 1967” has a point that Canadian politicians must either walk the walk on their “decolonizing” talk or walk it back.
“When Mr. Chesterton visited Warsaw recently the papers stated that he was accompanied from the station to his quarters by a squadron of glittering Polish cavalry: a pleasing attention, only his due, and one that I am sure he heartily appreciated. But a thoroughly adequate escort for him would include not merely armed horsemen, but cohorts of magicians, clowns, princesses, priests, kings, vegetarians, Puritans, drunkards, landlords, politicians, millionaires, minstrels out of which he has made the fairy-tale world of his poems. The fairy-tales always have a point; it was long ago said that Mr. Chesterton’s value as a moralist was largely based on the fact that he made virtue amusing. Yet even when he is most vigorously jousting against slimy monsters or caitiff knights his spear usually has a few balloons tied on to it, and can be used, when he tires of the more formal tourney, as a quarterstaff or even a slapstick. His jests are mingled with his protestations of anger and love … he has one foot in fairyland and another in Fleet Street …”
The now-forgotten J.C. Squire in 1927, quoted by Dale Ahlquist in Gilbert The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 26 # 2 (Nov.-Dec. 2022)