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  • Open Thread – Weekend 25 Feb 2023

    The Seven Arches Adel Woods, John Atkinson Grimshaw, mid-late 1800s

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #59

    All About Me ! Is the memoir of Melvin James Kaminsky better known as Mel Brooks. Born on June 28th, 1926, Mel Brooks has had a career that has spanned over seven decades incorporating TV, movies and theatre in which as a writer and director of comedy he has had many successes with broad farces…

  • Meme of the Day #66

    h/t: Philip Soos

  • Perversity under liberalism

    This is a rather good thread on the pseudo-medicalization of psychological conditions that are often, in other instances, nothing more than perverse sexual fetishes and I recommend it to you. One of the interesting aspects here is the status of perversion under liberalism. To put it bluntly, liberalism not only lacks the philosophical and moral…

  • Open Thread – Tues 21 Feb 2023

    Purgatory Canto 33, Gustave Dore, mid-1800s

  • A good call on Twiggy Forest

    This journo has got Twiggy’s number Joe Aston of the Fin Review has written two killer articles on Twiggy Forest in recent times. On Sunday he wrote an account of the meeting last week when Fortescue reported their interim earnings. On Aston’s account there was a disturbing lack of connection with people who wanted to…

  • The debacle of Snowy2.0

    Lets be clear that the quest for net zero emissions has turned into the most disastrous policy bungle in our national history, wartime included, whether you go back to 1900 or 1788. That can be explained by reference to the Iron Triangle of Power Supply in the electricity grid, bearing in mind to the logic…

  • Balloonacy

    You will remember THE Chinese Spy Balloon. The big white one with the dangly bits. It was a remarkably capable balloon, as you would expect from a spy balloon. One U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the balloon was able to linger in the winds over specific areas.“We saw it do that. It…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 18 Feb 2023

    The White Horse, John Constable, 1819

  • Prideland

    I have often wondered what it must have been like for ordinary people in Russia, China, Germany, Cambodia, Korea, Iran, and other countries, to wake up and realise they were living in a country that had been overtaken by a sinister, fringe, and radical political ideology. Did they think the political madness would pass and…

  2. And more news: Harvey didn’t root anyone: Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction quashed | Watch (msn.com) I still like this one:…

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