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“Be well, living in your fascist state”
I just received a note from a friend in San Francisco. This is how it ends: In the midst of this phase of the pandemic, I’m off to Paris for a 6 week travel spree culminating in the wedding of my stepdaughter in New Hampshire. Planes, trains, buses and automobiles. Will stay as safe as…
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The Scientist and the Narcissist
Professor Ian Frazer: The Premier of Victoria: Now if Professor Frazer is correct in his analysis that the vaccine represents only “personal protection against the bad consequences of Covid-19” (and I would put his view well above both Dan and Brett), what reasons could the Victorian Premier have in introducing medical apartheid…other than punitive? Isn’t…
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“Transitory” inflation is on its way
I don’t know what I would do without Paul Krugman and his unerring ability to get things wrong, but bless him, there he is again. Krugman doesn’t get quite understand any of this, but he does come close. The issue between the classics and the Keynesians over why recessions occur was over whether they were…
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Guest post: Cassie of Sydney – The Tree of Lies
Overnight Johanna kindly posted this. Thank you. I’ve decided to respond with a post…..which I hope enlightens people. PITTSBURGH, PA – OCTOBER 31: Mourners visit the memorial outside the Tree of Life Synagogue on October 31, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Eleven people were killed in a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh’s…
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Guest post: Vikki Campion – Beating around the bush
ABC talkfest Q&A sank to an audience of 96,300 regional viewers a few weeks ago. That means of the eight million regional Australians, just over 1.2 per cent are tuning in. ABC championing Annandale, Brunswick and Canberra and not Atherton, Bourke, and Corryong is why Q&A in the bush rates beneath Bluey, Peter Rabbit and…
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Guest Post: MatrixTransform – The choices, the choices…
I am never going to reveal my vaxed or unvaxed status to anybody. So, just to let you know in advance…I won’t have to make a choice because I have done so already. You mate, you have to choose…and you’ll have to choose every single time. I do hope you’ve considered all the consequences. —…
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Open Thread – Weekend 3 Sept 2021
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And there it is!
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Clinging to sanity, steeled by two young women
Don’t watch Gladys’s interminable daily Covid updates. Just clinging on to sanity as it is. But Bolt said again last evening that she was the best of the premiers. He showed a clip of her revealing to the hermit people of NSW that tens of people die of heart disease each day. Death is “horrible”…
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A study in cynicism and the modern world
Here’s the actual title, Diary of an Acclimatised Beauty: Treating, but it really is a study in cynicism and the modern world. Here is the passage that first caught my eye, just in case you were wondering why there are so many covid cases in the US. American hospitals are actually paid 20 percent more…