Month: January 2023

  • It’s time to celebrate men and masculinity

    There is a Yiddish word I am sure many here have heard of before. The word is “mensch”. Mensch, in its original meaning, is not a word to be used flippantly. Calling a man a mensch is a serious compliment, to be used sparingly, it’s a word of praise that extols the virtues of a…

  • Back to the age of climate-driven superstition

    In recent blog on Quadrant Online, I referred to a Mr Ted O’Connor of Prince Charles Parade, in the suburb of Kernell in Sydney, who in 1956 expressed concern about the danger of high seas eroding homes along the Parade; which runs alongside the seafront.  “Fifty houses at Kurnell are in danger of toppling into…

  • WIND FAILS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

    BUSINESS AS USUAL Pressing on with the new energy story that was sketched here not long ago. The so-called green energy transition has hit the wall. Worldwide, trillions of dollars of investment have shifted the contribution of organic (hydrocarbon or fossil) fuel from about 82% of total energy use to 80 or 81%.  In Australia…

  • The Ivermectin scandal

    For 35 years, Ivermectin was hailed as a miracle drug.  It had an incredible impact on millions of people’s lives around the world who suffered from diseases like river blindness, scabies, and elephantiasis, without side effects and at an affordable price. The scientists who discovered it won the Nobel Prize: Mountains of data have emerged showing…

  • Open Thread – Tue 10 Jan 2023

    The Siesta, Camille Pissarro, 1899

  • Rabz’ Radio Show January 2023: Albums

    You can write off this medium of music storage as an anachronism at your peril, Cats. I noted various recent stories in the meeja stating that sales of vinyl LPs are at their highest since the medium was declared (finally) dead upon the advent of the compact disc format in the eighties. Thirty-three and third,…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 7 Jan 2023

    Nightly Walk of the Monks to the Mountain Monastery Athos, Hermann Corrodi, 1888

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #52

    Ealing comedies As promised last week, this weeks post will be taking a look at the comedies from Ealing Studios – thanks to Pogria for the suggestion. Ealing Studios is a London based film and television production company and is actually the oldest continuously working studio facility for film production in the world of which…

  • Jan 6 The Epoch Times Report

    People who were following events in Washington DC after the 2020 Presidential Election will know that Antifa gang members intended to join the march to the Capitol to create a “false flag” diversion. I recall a video supposedly made at the time showing the guards pulling obstacles out of the way of the crowd to…

  • Decarbonization: chemo for the planet

    Every day we read about the need to accelerate the exit of coal from our power supply in the interests of decarbonization to meet a target of emission reduction to keep the heating of the planet down to 1.5C, in case it matters. So much about that agenda is wrong that it makes my head…