“I got off to a roaring stop”
Me on sitting down to work December 29, 2924 with an ambitious agenda of cleaning up fundamentals and being immediately overwhelmed by urgent trivia in yesterday’s leftover email.
In my latest Epoch Times column I follow up on the question of where the feds expect to find $150 billion a year for defence alone by warning that the overall fiscal situation is far worse than they think including, crucially, how little time they have to fix it.
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say all the excitement about Zohran Mamdani is misplaced, not because he isn’t potentially important but because what matters isn’t whether he wins a primary or even the New York general mayoral election. It’s what happens if and when he tries to govern and what the result tells us about the soundness or insanity of his principles.
“Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly”
Quintilian’s Institutio Oratoria quoted in Will Durant Caesar and Christ
In my latest Epoch Times column I discuss the vexed question of where the government is going to find more than $100 billion extra to meet the defence spending commitment the Prime Minister blithely made.
“It taught me to be more sure of myself. The doughnut taught me to realize who I am.”
Ed Atwell, entrepreneur and inventor of the Sunnymoon doughnut, on the merits of entrepreneurship, quoted in Ottawa Citizen June 29, 2006
In my latest Epoch Times column I argue that even governments that talk about fiscal prudence are helpless to stem the tidal wave of overspending because they’re secretly convinced it stimulates the economy.
“In a recent British study of ‘happy’ professions, hairdressing topped the list, reports The Independent on Sunday. Next happiest were the clergy, chefs, beauticians, plumbers and mechanics.”
“Social Studies” in Globe & Mail October 6, 2005 [and it strikes me that of these professions all but the clergy work with their hands on physical objects]