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  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #85

    Watch the skies. Was the working title for Steven Spielberg’s 1977 science fiction classic Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. Anticipation was very high for this film as it would be Spielberg’s follow-up to his hugely successful 1975 horror thriller Jaws. Was Jaws just a one-off fluke or was a new and exciting director now…

  • Open Thread – Wed 27 Sept 2023

  • Help wanted

    Objections to wind and solar facilities The rising tide of protest against the loss of forests and farmland is strangely not reflected in a large number of people putting their hands up to lodge official submissions objecting to the proposals when they are listed for review prior to a decision on their approval. Bob King…

  • Wise words from Shirley Hazzard

    Speaking to our condition Dipping into Shirley Hazard’s Boyer Lectures, written in 1984, some useful thoughts about the voice debate turned up. From the chapter Australia and the Menace of Eternal Youth As Australia emerged from the first hard decades we had the experience, the inventions, and the institutions of many centuries to draw upon…as a…

  • Open Thread – Mon 25 Sept 2023

  • Rafe’s Roundup 24 Sept

    The Free Speech Union of Australia LAUNCHING IN OCTOBER GET ON THE MAILING LIST The usual suspects THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE LIST OF DEPLORABLES The Conservative Party CPAC The Energy Realists   IPA Net Zero Aust Spectator    Jo Nova Centre for Ind Studies Conservative Vagabond      The Monarchists Quadrant   The Free Press    Bettina Arndt …

  • Democracy Defenestrated

    Mentioned it previously, busing again on Friday. To forestall infirmity and decrepitude I go to my club’s gym on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at about four in the afternoon. This means I can feel good about drinking when I come home. How do I manage on the other evenings? Good question. Just don’t feel as…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 23 Sept 2023

  • BUK + flechettes = contradiction

    In CL’s report on the NYT’s unusual scraps of integrity in reporting on the Kostiantynivka (aka Kostyantynovka) market-place attack, the new standard story is revealed. But evidence collected and analyzed by The New York Times, including missile fragments, satellite imagery, witness accounts and social media posts, strongly suggests the catastrophic strike was the result of…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #84

    Opening Credits. Something a little different this week. There are many things I dislike about movies today and one of my pet hates is the incessant production credits at the beginning of a movie which can take around 5 minutes to unfurl. So five minutes into a movie the audience is already bored whilst they…

  1. The Pentagon’s Lack Of Loyalty To President Trump During the Trump presidency, Pentagon officials refused to follow orders, substituting their…

  3. ” Facts are that there are laws which relate to handling of classified information and there is no evidence that…

  4. Roger Oct 5, 2023 12:15 PM Which is precisely what Ray Martin was doing with his “dinosaurs and dickheads” speech…

  5. Malmo, like fantasy football, marrying into assets and joining the middle class are long running gags. I can’t imagine what…