New Catallaxy

  • Meme of the Day #1

    h/t: William Briggs.

  • And now from the world of sport

    This may have been reported here but picked it up on an American website: Australian Football Player Diagnosed with Pericarditis After Receiving First Pfizer Shot – Team Director Quits and Slams Leagues “Forceful” Jab Policy. A top-up player with the Adelaide Crows was sent to hospital and diagnosed with pericarditis after receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine….…

  • Guest Post: Christopher Robin – A Bad Catholic: an Open Letter to Archbishop Mark Coleridge

    To the Most Reverend Mark Coleridge BA DSS, Archbishop of Brisbane Your Grace, I am a bad Catholic. I have been to Mass only a handful of times since a little before Easter of 2020; that is, since your embrace of the restrictions on Church attendance and your lifting on the Sunday Mass obligation. I…

  • Socialist Left taking over Victorian Labor

    That’s what the headline should be. This is what we find instead: Dan warned over party bloodshed which completely misleads any potential reader about what is going on. Here’s the sentence that matters. The administrative body – controlled by Daniel Andrews’ Socialist Left faction … is looking to oust several “internal enemies”. “Oust several internal…

  • “Former US president Donald Trump was right …”

    Now there were words I have not seen in any newspaper anywhere, possibly ever. Yet there they are in today’s Oz in Adam Creighton’s column: I caught Covid and it was no big deal – providing a perspective equally rare in this day and age. Here’s the full sentence: Former US president Donald Trump was right…

  • “Just zip it Andrews…we have had enough of you”

    I think Daniel Andrews is finally beginning to see what a screw up he has been and how tragically he has mangled the response to Covid. Of course, he doesn’t put it quite that way: Andrews declares Covid response a ‘triumph’. From the article: Daniel Andrews has declared Victoria’s response to the pandemic has been a…

  • All-cause mortality tells the story

    Slowly but surely, evidence is emerging that the COVID vaccines are not fit for purpose. Once you focus on all-cause mortality rather than COVID deaths alone, the picture changes remarkably. His colleague, Prof Neil, explains the situation in this thread: Here is a longer discussion by Prof Fenton here:

  • Open Thread – Mon 6 Dec 2021

  • Suffer the Little Children

    Israel started vaxxing young children in late November, as did Canada and the United States. Reports out of the UK suggest it may start there in Spring.  I see from this morning’s news that the TGA here has “provisionally approved” Pfizer for 5- to 11-years-olds. Only one child under 12 years has died with Covid…

  • Leunig in conversation

    With Nick Cater of the Menzies Research Institute. He does not describe himself as a conservative but he sees that some of the best commentary at present is coming from conservative voices.

  4. Obviously Sales and Ferguson wrote William’s babble. I mean, he didn’t learn all of those sublime political insights in the…

  5. Just logged in to find my nom de plum in dispatches. Will review with interest between sorting out bedding for…

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