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Outside the People’s Republic
We recently crossed into NSW for a family thing and what struck me most about life outside the walls was that despite the broad adoption of masking and QR kabuki, there was no wide-eyed fervour like there is in Vic. Sure, some places were stricter than others on QR and green tick-ish-ness but nonetheless we…
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The cult of covid
This originated back in the old country, written by a Mountie, who was put on unpaid leave for not being vaxxed: RCMP member sent on unpaid leave writes this powerful letter you must read. Long, as it says at the link, but very powerful and dead on the mark. Here’s a bit to get you going.…
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The ups and downs of RE in South Australia
Jess Hunt, an energy market designer with the Energy Security Board, posted a comment on LinkedIn to describe how the energy supply in SA was up and down in the week between Christmas and New year 2021-2022. This week’s energy supply mix in South Australia is a great example of variability that we need to…
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Weekday Reading #18
Sohrab Ahmari, The Post-Liberals’ Fight For The Weekend, The American Conservative Niccolo Soldo, The Zürich Interviews – Darren J. Beattie: If Only You Knew How Bad Things Really Are, Fisted by Foucault Edward Feser, Geach on authority and consistency, Feser’s Blog Adrian Vermeulle, “Who Decides?”, The Postliberal Order Allen Mendenhall, Remembering Kingsley Amis, Chronicles
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Meme of the Day #8
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Open Thread – Mon 10 Jan 2022
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Mater’s Mischief #8: He’s come good since leaving the job
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Democracy is apparently the greatest threat to our way of life
This is from the comments to the vid which kind of explains what’s happening. Okay, it’s really quite simple. The third dose increases immunity, so after the fourth dose you’ll be protected. Once 80% of the population has received the fifth dose, the restrictions can be relaxed as the sixth dose stops the virus from…
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Mater’s Mischief #7: We’ve been tasting it for nearly two years
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January 6 is the American Reichstag fire
The politics of the left are largely dishonest and frequently evil. Everything they do is seen by themselves as fair and reasonable, while anything done to prevent the inevitable harm the left creates is seen, by the left, as immoral and wrong. Today in America is the first anniversary of Congressional tallying of the electoral…