New Catallaxy

  • Two weeks to flatten the curve

    Came across a copy of the above “Horrible History” on the Frightful First World War. And indeed it was horrible and even now there is no settled theory on how it ever happened, although there is a near consensus that it never ought to have. But there on the back was this. The Frightful First World…

  • Guest Post: Hugh – Jungle survival: What the SAS Manual doesn’t Teach

    Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, Velázquez, 1618 Incredible story. One of our two great pastors, Fr Wee, told us in his Sunday sermon of the few months he spent with a living saint priest on the Thai/Malaysian border. Thick jungle. No food except boiled rice and vegetables. No salt, pepper, tea, coffee,…

  • Good News Everybody!

    The banks are here to help with the multi-trillion dollar transition to carbon neutrality by 2050! Commonwealth Bank head of institutional banking and markets Andrew Hinchliff said there was a wall of funds looking to finance the transition, not just because it was the moral and ethical thing to do but also for the business…

  • Guest Post: Muddy – Remembrances

    Tired of Killing – Mont Brehain, October, 1918. The price of victory was paid with the lives of many very gallant officers, N.C.O.s and men whose loss in the closing stages of the war – perhaps in our last battle all regret. So wrote the philosophical war diarist of the 24th Australian Infantry Battalion, 6th…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 13 Nov 2021

  • A non-answer to the MOST important question

    So in other words, they really don’t know what it might do more than 6-8 weeks post the jab being forced on you. But don’t worry. If something truly untoward happens to you, there’s a team of specialists who’ll investigate and do their damnedest to blur the cause with all manner of other explanations and…

  • Weekday Reading #6

    C. S Lewis: Talking about Bicycles If someone is complaining, it makes a good deal of difference whether they are complaining because they have never been Enchanted by the thing, or if they are complaining because they have been Disenchanted. [Suppose] you read an author in whom love is treated as lust and all war…

  • Scott Morrison is the best political leader in the world right now

    All political leaders must deal with the world as they find it. They can shift some things, and change some views here and there. But over all, they have to take the world as they find it. Climate change is, in my view, an absolute hoax and I can say that whenever I like and…

  • Chinese Morality Tale

    Saw an interesting graph in the Daily Telegraph (UK) the other day which purported to breakdown cumulative CO2 emissions since 1750 by country. How accurate this is, I don’t know? Assume it’s in the ballpark. Anyway liked the graph thought I’d share. The UK had all the emissions in the early years having kicked off…

  • Mater’s Musings #37: Grievance Day

    At the end of the second day of a module designed to teach the kids about The Great War (obviously designed to coincide with Remembrance Day), my son poses to me the following question just before dinner: “Dad, why did Aboriginals play such a big part in World War 1, and why were they treated…

  1. mizaris  October 18, 2024 9:41 am mizaris was complaining about furious activity achieving nothing in the hospital she was staying.There…

  3. I spoke to a road engineer a few years ago out Wilcannia way. He said there’s more money for repairs…

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