John Robson

2 days ago | thejohnrobson.com | John Robson

“Politics are now so corrupt that everything they touch is corrupted. We are long past the point of protecting our government from the degrading influences of trade or professionalism. If anything, we have to protect our trades and professions from the degrading influences of government.” G.K. Chesterton in New Witness November 5, 1920, quoted in “Chesterton for Today” in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol.

3 days ago | thejohnrobson.com | John Robson

“The bungles, delays and disaster associated with space travel indicate that the people concerned with it may, indeed, be exercising creative incompetence. I emphasize ‘may’ because the test of real creative incompetence is that an observer cannot certainly tell whether the incompetence is deliberate or not.” Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, The Peter Principle

4 days ago | theepochtimes.com | John Robson

AD6/2/2025Updated: 6/2/2025CommentaryTalk about a shot in the dark. A new Public Health Agency of Canada report says endless insulting government propaganda and legal coercion on vaccinations made people trust them less. The vaccinations, I mean, though also I suspect the government. Whatever might the solution be?

4 days ago | thejohnrobson.com | John Robson

“If you love your job, you will never work another day in your life.”Implausibly attributed to Confucius in “More Choice Quotes” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 5 #7 (May 2002) [evidently a version has also been attributed to Mark Twain, rather less unbelievably: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/646569-find-a-job-you-enjoy-doing-and-you-will-never

5 days ago | thejohnrobson.com | John Robson

“The whole book, indeed, is a picture of the Tree of Life – a sappy and golden book, full of buoyancy and confidence. We cannot, I admit, appropriate all its confidence today. We cannot point to the high virtue of Christian living and the gay, almost mocking courage of Christian martyrdom, as a proof of our doctrines with quite that assurance with Athanasius takes as a matter of course.