New Catallaxy

  • Site update

    I won’t bore you with the minutiae but the site’s current problem/s seem to be revolve around the theme (appearance of the website) and database issues. A temporary site upgrade (increasing the RAM) was made yesterday afternoon in order to see if that resolved the database issues. It appears to have somewhat as can be…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #78

    You must just remember this. Casablanca arguably remains Hollywood’s finest moment, a film that succeeds on such a vast scale not because of anything experimental or deliberately earthshaking in its design, but for the way it adhered to and reaffirmed the movie-making conventions of its day. This is the film that played by the rules…

  • Roundup July

    WHAT THE USUAL SUSPECTS ARE DOING New on the list The Spectator Australia A scintillating roundup of news, opinion, politics, arts and letters. An outstanding array of columnists. The Energy Realists    Conservative Vagabond Jo Nova    The Monarchists Quadrant The Free Press Bettina Arndt Menzies IPA      The Sydney Institute Mannkal CIS   Taxpayers   Alexandra Marshall `   Australian Inst for…

  • Open Thread – Tues 4 July 2023

  • Free speech is hate speech, or Elon triggers Julie

    You may recall some years ago, when section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act was being debated in federal parliament, George Brandis, the then Attorney General, saying that people have a right to be bigoted. Of course, he came under attack from the usual suspects. He was right then and it is right now. But…

  • Aftermath

    Feel that chill in the air? If you think its frosty in your location, it is frozen solid between Russian President Putin and Wagner chief Prigozhin. And so it is that we are now one week after the “March of Justice” that saw Evgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group stage an uprising. But first, a few MSM…

  • Careless, expensive & barely relevant

    Your taxes at work in a university centre of climate science excellence Looking at a preprint of a paper by Richardson et al on “compound solar and wind droughts” from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes at the University of NSW. The purpose of the study was to assess the risk…

  • Rabz’ Radio Show July 2023: Music Videos

    This is a difficult one, given that these monthly threads were always meant to be about the music. As far as I’m concerned there’s a golden rule regarding music videos – ideally, they should never be more memorable than the song. Having said that, if a great song has a great video, that’s a bonus.…

  • Worldwide boom in stranded assets

    Remember the great booms and busts of history, the Dutch tulip mania, the South Sea Bubble? We will soon be privileged to see the mother of them all, the collapse of the climate and energy ponzi scheme. Buckle up! Look where the money is going! It seems that the ASX has surged this year (and…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 1 July 2023

  1. Looks like the phantom downticker found a new victim. How childish can you get? So be it, I can live…

  3. Why are we fixing something that isn’t broken? And then why are we choosing the least effective and the costliest…

  5. Real love and devotion to each other. We hear about the divorces and cheating of celebrities but hardly ever of…

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