In my latest Loonie Politics column I argue that most politicians and voters across the spectrum seem dangerously complacent in practice even on topics where their rhetoric is shrill and panicky.
“when people work at jobs that require the inhibition of imagination and creativity, any activity that permits those qualities - no matter how difficult or demanding - is experienced as play, not work.”
Lillian Breslow Rubin Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working-Class [re hobbies like tinkering with cars].
“Arnold Toynbee was right when he wrote that ‘the supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.’”
Paul Pearsall The Last Self-Help Book You’ll Ever Need
In my latest National Post column I say the routinely grandiose rhetoric emanating from Prime Minister Mark Carney is a warning sign about the routinely grandiose way he thinks.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say the fatal flaw in the Carney cabinet’s lavish austerity program is their conviction that almost any government spending, however trivial and absurd or massive and wrongheaded, pays big dividends so we can’t afford not to.
“The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.”
Mark Twain quoted in Tony Robbins Unlimited Power
This week on Juno News with Melanie Bennet I discussed my crusade against photo-radar speed tickets as a breach of the social contract and the rule of law.
“Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.”
Elbert Hubbard according to www.quotationspage.com as of Dec. 10, 2005.