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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…
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Open Thread – Weekend 25 Feb 2023
The Seven Arches Adel Woods, John Atkinson Grimshaw, mid-late 1800s
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Meme of the Day #66
h/t: Philip Soos
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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…
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Open Thread – Tues 21 Feb 2023
Purgatory Canto 33, Gustave Dore, mid-1800s
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A good call on Twiggy Forest
This journo has got Twiggy’s number Joe Aston of the Fin Review has written two killer articles on Twiggy Forest in recent times. On Sunday he wrote an account of the meeting last week when Fortescue reported their interim earnings. On Aston’s account there was a disturbing lack of connection with people who wanted to…
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The debacle of Snowy2.0
Lets be clear that the quest for net zero emissions has turned into the most disastrous policy bungle in our national history, wartime included, whether you go back to 1900 or 1788. That can be explained by reference to the Iron Triangle of Power Supply in the electricity grid, bearing in mind to the logic…
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Balloonacy
You will remember THE Chinese Spy Balloon. The big white one with the dangly bits. It was a remarkably capable balloon, as you would expect from a spy balloon. One U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the balloon was able to linger in the winds over specific areas.“We saw it do that. It…
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Open Thread – Weekend 18 Feb 2023
The White Horse, John Constable, 1819
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Prideland
I have often wondered what it must have been like for ordinary people in Russia, China, Germany, Cambodia, Korea, Iran, and other countries, to wake up and realise they were living in a country that had been overtaken by a sinister, fringe, and radical political ideology. Did they think the political madness would pass and…