New Catallaxy

  • “Why are we made to be bouncers?”

    Here’s something unexpected: Dymocks hires security after jump in assaults on staff over COVID rules.  A popular bookshop in Melbourne’s CBD has been forced to hire security guards to guard its main entrance after employees were attacked by customers refusing to follow Victoria’s COVID-19 rules, with one worker being pushed down an escalator. Pretty gruesome…

  • Mater’s Musings #43: Attention ‘Purebloods’

    Really Guys? Some of the moral posturing here of late is not only unnecessary, but it’s also largely unwarranted…and unseemly. What follows is not me changing sides because I’m now on my way to being ‘vaxxed’, what follows is me laying out a few facts for the good of the cause. The moment the ‘Vaccinated…

  • Weekday Reading #13

    eugyppius, The Ideology of Corona Containment, eugyppius: a plague chronicle Darren J. Beattie, Declassified Military Report Exposes Hidden Links Between Wokeness and The American Regime, Revolver News el gato malo, is it vaccines or is it covid causing athletes to collapse on the field? Bad Cattitude Adrian Vermeule,“It Can’t Happen”; Or, the Poverty of Political…

  • The Melbourne protest in pictures

    And there were many many more who stayed home who are just as angry as the ones who showed up.

  • Geoff Giudice [1947-1921]

    There are people who are too little appreciated for what they have done, even though they have done a great deal. One of these is the just-departed former Chief Judge of Fair Work Australia, Geoff Guidice. I was devastated to learn he has now departed from this life. His funeral was today. I came to…

  • Oh my goodness, a pandemic!!

    From Jupes in a previous thread, with thanks. The ‘38th’ figure is where Covid was placed on the ABS list of 2020 causes of death. Thirty. Eight. No, seriously. It’s official. Well, as official as a number from the ABC can be. Anyway all part of our current forms of insanity. As others have pointed…

  • Open Thread – Mon 29 Nov 2021

  • There were a lot more than 20,000

    The headline in the Sunday paper today read 20,000 rally in CBD. There were a lot more than that, as I did my own count as the procession passed by on Flinders Street. This was my calculation. There were approximately 16 persons in each row of the procession. Each row passed by at the rate…

  • The Kafkaesque process of Vaccine Exemptions

    This is an incredible story. This lady is being put through the ringer here in Victoria in order to obtain a medical exemption even though she clearly deserves one given her previous anaphylactic episodes with other medical interventions. Her GP refused on the grounds of ‘legal liability’ but I think its rather fear of an…

  • “The task of the Marxist historian”

    I’m all for de mortuis nil nisi bonum but there are limits. The obit for Stuart Macintyre in The Oz certainly is heavily weighted on the bonum side. And what is perhaps worth noting is that there is plenty in what was written even there that should make someone just a bit suspicious. Let me…

  1. Good on you, Shatterzzz. Living it up like a true blue Aussie. Having fun, on a fine day in Springtime…

  4. Sancho I have one team member who works from home two days per week. She’s got a lot to juggle…

  5. As things go from bad to worse for Kamala and Albosleazy, Numbers is getting increasingly desperate and unhinged.

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