New Catallaxy

  • Digital Banking: Swings and Roundabouts – Peter Smith

    I am treasurer of my church. Most people now give via online banking but there is still cash and cheque giving on Sundays. I used to bank the offering each week but Westpac closed its local branch earlier this year, as did St George owned by Westpac some months before. Now, because I have to…

  • Rabz’ Radio Show Spring 2023 – Jazz

    Many people would describe this as the perfect music when one would like to kick back and relaxatrate (or Relaxin’). They would not be incorrect. Jazz, by its very nature, is unpredictable, with the emphasis on the concept of “improvisation”. Jazz is “a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana,…

  • Windwatching Sept 2023

    In case you were wondering SEPT 1 NEM Wind at 7.20am providing 3% of demand at Capacity Factor 11%. (CF is the % of installed capacity. 29% is the average.) SA the wind leading state, wind generating 4% of demand operating with CF 4. Victoria, wind providing 3% of demand with CF 4. NSW ,…

  • Open Thread Weekend 2 Sept 2023

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #81

    Feed the French. Kill the Germans. Well its been over a month since I lasted posted and I feel sufficiently refreshed and with time on my hand again to resume posting. So to start the ball rolling again I’ve selected a movie that has been requested by a number of Cats. Set during the World…

  • Wednesday, not the day, the girl …

    Tim Burton’s Wednesday, Cats – I was hugely sceptical until having realised the immensely talented adidas fan Miss Jenna Ortega had also appeared in various other televisual feasts I’d recently seen, most notably the second season of “You”. Spoiler Alerts, Cats … “Wednesday” may be among the last few gasps of Hollyweird greatness, which of…

  • Open Thread – Tues 29 Aug 2023

  • Kenny’s Voice for Simpletons

    I see that the Voice of distraction and misdirection was at it again in the Weekend Australian. Chris Kenny lays bare the No campaigns “Hateful Eight” scare tactics. I can’t cover them all. Here are the first three. I’m sure you can as easily knock down the other five. According to Kenny, it is a…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 26 Aug 2023

  • Getting them young / telling it like it is.

    One of the effects of the left’s long march through the institutions is the almost universal capture of young minds. Generally speaking, at least until the financial reality of life arrives – job, spouse, children and a mortgage – there they will remain. Consequently, the young and the left do not depict a normal distribution…

  1. Damn good at managing encounters with non-gangs of youths of no notable ethnicity carrying machetes, while on their 20th- 40th…

  2. I know steel and aluminium exports to the US aren’t a big deal, but it’s hard to argue an exemption…

  3. You would never get the occupant off such a chair, sir, given we are speaking of left wing journalists. Bit…

  5. Ha ha haaaa. They got away with it. The last time Stevo took Cash into a shopping centre / mall*,…

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