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  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #76

    The Return of the Great Adventure With the impending release of Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny it’s opportune to look back at the film that started it all Raiders Of The Lost Ark released way back in 1981. Nowadays we keep forgetting how magnificent blockbusters can be. Too much CGI makes everything possible…

  • Open Thread – Tues 20 June 2023

  • Its about the wind droughts, stupid!

    This is a series of pieces in The Australian Spectator over the last few months. A picture is forming of gross negligence on the part of the meteorologists of the world, headed by the World Meteorological Organization. It was left to independent wind watchers in Australia to find the wind droughts that severely impact the…

  • Who really wrote this?

    Don’t tell me it was Scott Morisson. He was one of our most disappointing Liberal leaders. Admittedly he inherited a chalice that was poisoned by Malcolm Turnbull, but he was one of the gang of 57 (?) who assassinated Tony Abbott. Correction it was 55 and Morisson was not one of them. and he was…

  • Transphobania, Here I Come

    Read an article earlier in the week about Queensland health executives dismissing a call for a review of its children’s hospital gender services. A paediatrician was reported as calling for an immediate moratorium on the use of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones. Reportedly, a senior staff psychologist at the hospital has been stood down for…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 17 June 2023

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #75

    Tourists on the menu. The first time watching of a favourite film can be a particularly memorable event, and I will always recall my first viewing of Jaws when the family went to see it way back in the summer of 1976. It would have to rank as one of my top five most purely…

  • Barnes on the federal Trump indictments

    Excellent overview of the constitutional issues raised by the recent federal indictments againt Trump, the leading challenger in the 2024 Presidential election. It all appears to hang on Article II powers conferred on every President, including classified material.

  • Open Thread – Tues 13 June 2023

  • The King Alfred the Great Awards

    These awards recall the memory of the warrior/educator/administrator and ruler Alfred, generally acknowledged as “the Great” (849-899) who expelled Danes from Wessex and eventually from England. He used to be known to every primary school child, if only for the legend that he went to sleep in a humble cottage while he was on the…

  1. FMD. Your children are being taught by arseholes. Hun: A former teacher at The Knox School has won the right…

  2. In May 2022, here in Oz land, the electorate kicked out a useless, spineless, craven and quisling Coalition government and…

  3. And don’t forget A.D. Hope’s Dunciad Minor – where he slices and dices literary critics, particularly those who want to…

  4. She is impressive by any standard. Easy to see why she is particularly loathed by the moral dwarves and pigmies…

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