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Open Thread – Christmas Weekend 2022
Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence, Caravaggio, 1609
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A Small Price (for us) To Pay
On 25th of March, 2022 (keep the date in mind) Sergei Shoigu, the Russian Defence Minister, released figures for Russian army casualties in the month-long war, or “special military operation,” in Ukraine. 1,351 Russian servicemen had been killed, and another 3,825 wounded. NATO sources put the number killed at between 7,000 and 15,000. On 22nd…
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WolfmanOz at the Movies #50
Laurel & Hardy Well for my last post before Xmas, and to bring a smile to Cats faces, I can think of no better topic than to discuss the most beloved comedy duo in cinema history in Laurel & Hardy. Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957) started their career as a duo in the silent…
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Offshore Wind.
From The Guardian: Australia’s first offshore windfarm zone … will be on Victoria’s Gippsland coast, which environmental advocates have labelled a game-changer. “It is one of the most significant wind resources anywhere in the world,”the premier, Daniel Andrews, said, referring to powerful winds from the Bass Strait. The projects are expected to support more than…
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Diversity, a one-way street
Efforts are afoot to make North American (ice) hockey more diverse. Apparently it’s too white. I am not aware of any similar efforts being made in water polo or swimming or in chess for that matter. Nor am I ware of any complaints that American basketball and football and, say, athletic sprinting are disproportionately too…
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Genital cutting
Not my favourite topic but someone had to say it. While there is animated discussion about the mutilation of girls who have been persuaded that they want to be boys there is another kind of female mutilation that has been under the radar for some time. What is going on? I don’t have time to…
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Open Thread – Tue 20 Dec 2022
Rocks and Ferns in a Wood at Crossmount, John Ruskin, 1847
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Rafe’s Roundup 19 Dec
Roundup of Partners and Fellow-Travellers Drop in and see what they are up to! The Energy Realists of Australia Jo Nova Quadrant on line IPA Climate and energy program CIS The Sydney Institute Menzies Research Centre Mannkal Economics Education Foundation Advance Australia Taxpayers Alliance Australian Inst for Progress The Conservative Vagabond The Rathouse and The Site of…
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Meet the classical liberal vagabond
There is a quiet achiever on the liberal/conservative scene, the indefatigable and mercurial Dara Macdonald. Thinker. Writer. Reader. Freedom enthusiast. Conservative Vagabond. Cocktail maker. Lawyer. Dara Macdonald is an Australian lawyer and founder. Dara has worked as in-house legal counsel for various national and multinational companies. Last year she took up a year-long research position with Australia’s…
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Open Thread – Weekend 17 Dec 2022
The Luncheon, Claude Monet, 1873