Month: September 2022

  • Weekend Reading #6

    Ahmari and Schmitz argue that Trump is still the One at Compact. Katya Sedgwick looks at Russia’s Western Face at The American Conservative. Pedro Gonzalez on the contradictions facing Giorgia Meloni at Chronicles. Patrick Deneen never pulls his punches. Over at The PostLiberal Order he argues that the great awokening is the poisoned fruit of…

  • Weather telling a climate tale

    The hurricane season in the United States goes from June to November. Prior to Hurricane Ian, the season had been “remarkably quiet.” Strange business when climate change is roaring about causing havoc to human populations; and goodness knows how our cousins the animals are faring. Dying out, like polar bears, I would guess. Hurricane Ian…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #38

    Knights of the Round Table The fantasy genre has probably become the dominant genre of movies of the 21st century. Whether it be prehistoric dinosaurs running amok, Marvel super heroes saving the universe, the world of Harry Potter, the never-ending Star Wars franchise, or even films based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkein, fantasy rules…

  • Meme of the Day #57

  • Definition of far-right in 2022

    In the wake of Giorgia Meloni’s fantastic win in Italy yesterday, the MSM have gone into overdrive, screeching and screaming how Meloni is “far-right”.  So I thought to myself, what do the left and their mouthpieces mean when they smear someone as “far-right”? Well, I have come up with the following.  The definition of “far-right”…

  • Open Thread – Tues 27 Sept 2022

  • Duelling Thread

    Let this be the thread where recent or longstanding feuds can be undertaken without disturbing the peace of the OT or any other thread. Anything that makes it on them, accidentally or not, will be deleted, and any further action is at my discretion.

  • Rafe’s Roundup 25 Sept

    Calling Energy and Emergency Services Ministers Here is a thought, what is the plan to respond to the collapse of the electricity grid? Is there adequate backup with generators to keep hospitals and other emergency services running? Complete with fuel. And what else? What about the water and gas supplies. And everything else like lifts,…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 24 Sept 2022

  • A new appreciation of our culture and heritage? I think so!

    The death of Queen Elizabeth II and the beginning of the reign of King Charles III has been a revelation. Five million Australians watched the Queen’s funeral. Many more would have viewed the ongoing, multiple television station coverage of reporters on the ground everywhere it mattered over the full ten days of mourning. A Roy…