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Open Thread – Weekend 3 Dec 2022
The Rector’s Garden – Queen of the Lilies, John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1877
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Open Thread – Tue 29 Nov 2022
Joseph’s Dream, Rembrandt, 1645
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All we can do is think of England
Changes in my personal life meant that I was forced to downsize in 2014. My new (small) place is ultra-convenient. No need for a car so I didn’t buy one, until now. Didn’t fancy dying carless. Ordered a new yellow MG hatch in mid-May. I cancelled at the end of October, have been told yet…
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Support The Voice
Enshrine racism in the Constitution Karl Popper defended equalitarian justice by which he meant equality before non-discriminatory laws and an equal distribution of the limitations on freedom that are required for a functional society. Traditional or individualistic justice, as described by Popper in his critique of Plato, “calls for equal treatment of the citizens before…
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Open Thread – Weekend 26 Nov 2022
Boulevard Montmartre – Spring Rain, Camille Pissarro, 1897
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Roundup 25 Nov
The New Energy Narrative It’s Time for a new narrative, a new Energy Story. The game has changed, not officially and not among the True Believers but every month it will get clearer to anyone who bothers to check. We are in damage control. The exit from coal, gas and oil has just about run…
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SA the wind-leader!
This morning on Wednesday Nov 23 South Australia is in a wind drought. The wind-leading state is demonstrating the great green future of Australia as we pretend to transition from coal. Before sunrise SA was importing power from Victoria and drawing almost 30% of its demand from the wind, with 70% from gas, with a…
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Open Thread – Tue 22 Nov 2022
Canvassing for Votes, William Hogarth, 1755
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Save our rural surroundings
And our farmland and forests. The Menzies Research Institute is hosting a webinar forum on the rising tide of protests from rural communities faced with the wreck and ruin inflicted by wind and solar factories and the transmission lines associated with them. Express interest here. The date is 15 December at 6.00 Sydney time. These…
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Covid’s variant of Munchausen by proxy
Minding my own business watching TV late the other night. I am assailed by professor Michael Kidd, who is apparently deputy chief medical officer. He warned me that I needed to stop the spread; to wear a mask when inside in crowded situations, to keep my distance from other folk, to wash my hands. Is…