Month: February 2023

  • Nietzsche’s foreboding insight

    From the outset, it must be said that German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a troubled individual who suffered a wide range of afflictions during his relatively short life.   Having said that, in the preface to his work ‘On the Genealogy of Morality’, Nietzsche wrote: What if a regressive trait lurked in “the good…

  • Open Thread – Tue 28 Feb 2023

    Belisarius Begging for Alms, Jacques-Louis David, 1781

  • Roundup Feb 26

    Jo Nova honoured to be awarded the Dauntless Purveyor of Climate Truth Award for 2023.  Previous winners include NASA Astronaut Walter Cunningham (Apollo 7), Dr Jay Lehr, Marc Morano, Christopher Monckton and Prof Fred Singer 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…

  • No such thing as Russia…

    The backroom conversations and classified files of Foreign Ministries and Departments of State must be a wonderland of speculations and conditionals, of grand schemes and short-term crises. But, judging by the utterances of two former Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Poland’s Ministry is up there with the best of them. Take Radoslaw (Radek) Sikorski, Minister from…

  • On The Home Front

    I go to my club’s gym in the city (Sydney) three times a week, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays. Set off between 3.30 pm and 4.30 pm. My bus is supposed to come each ten minutes. Whether it does or doesn’t, it is always crowded. I always have to stand and often complain to the…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 25 Feb 2023

    The Seven Arches Adel Woods, John Atkinson Grimshaw, mid-late 1800s

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #59

    All About Me ! Is the memoir of Melvin James Kaminsky better known as Mel Brooks. Born on June 28th, 1926, Mel Brooks has had a career that has spanned over seven decades incorporating TV, movies and theatre in which as a writer and director of comedy he has had many successes with broad farces…

  • Meme of the Day #66

    h/t: Philip Soos

  • Perversity under liberalism

    This is a rather good thread on the pseudo-medicalization of psychological conditions that are often, in other instances, nothing more than perverse sexual fetishes and I recommend it to you. One of the interesting aspects here is the status of perversion under liberalism. To put it bluntly, liberalism not only lacks the philosophical and moral…

  • Open Thread – Tues 21 Feb 2023

    Purgatory Canto 33, Gustave Dore, mid-1800s