New Catallaxy

  • God Save The King

    Until last evening, I hadn’t seen The King’s Speech with Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth and company. Usually watch some shoot-‘em up over a red wine or three.  Good movie. I enjoyed it. Whether the dialogue between the King and Lionel Logue is remotely close to the truth I doubt, but the substance of the plotline…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 13 May 2023

  • The Censorship Industrial Complex

    An important post by Jo Nova on the Censorship Industrial Complex, an echo of the Military Industrial Complex that grew up after WW2 and an advanced form of the Climate Industrial Complex that spread fake news and started to get serious about censoring dissident voices. A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS To simplify the message that…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #70

    A Tale of the Christ There are some films that make a lasting impression when you see them for the first time, and Ben-Hur (the 1959 version) is one such movie for myself. I first saw it on a re-release in the early 1970s when my parents took the family to see it on a…

  • Chat GPT review of Popper’s OSE

    Question. Write a 2000 word review of The Open Soceity and Its Enemies by Karl Popper The money quote. He warns that any attempt to suppress intellectual freedom, whether through censorship or propaganda, will inevitably lead to the suppression of all other freedoms, and ultimately to the destruction of the open society itself. Karl Popper’s…

  • Harry and Meghan

    From the outset I will acknowledge that most Cats couldn’t care less about the truculent and petulant behaviour of Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle.  Conversely, many Cats will acknowledge with gratitude, and perhaps awe, the unswerving devotion to duty and service displayed by the late Queen Elizabeth II.   King Charles has some mighty…

  • Open Thread – Tues 8 May 2023

  • Bring back the dandy

    Generally dandys don’t get a very good press but a conservative hippy has come to their defence. This prompts a memory of Sir Roderick Murchison, a great entrepreneur of science. This is a review of a book about his life and work, in a collection of papers on the theme Making Science Pay. The main…

  • When you can’t believe what you read

    Read a left-wing tendentious article yesterday (6 May) in the Weekend Australian (page 13) from a Hugh Tomlinson in London. All about the so-called Proud Boys and their Trumpian plot to storm the US Capitol buildings. Here’s a short extract One protester was shot dead and hundreds injured, including more than 150 police officers. One officer…

  • Rabz’ Radio Show May 2023 – Country and Western

    As proudly declared by Bob of his eponymous Country Bunker to Jake and Elwood as the latter two search for gigs to raise some funds for the Penguin’s orphanage property tax bill. When you’re on a mission from God, all bets are off.   Having said that, I am not a fan of this musical…

  1. Brian Quinn. Diverting company money to renovate his house in … Templestowe. I know, right? Apparently his wife Trenna ran…

  2. H B Bear  September 25, 2024 12:08 am  Reply to  Dunny Brush I drove past Battlestar Galactica a few times. Just…

  3. Biobots arise from the cells of dead organisms ? pushing the boundaries of life, death and medicine (theconversation.com) Biobots arise…

  4. I drove past Battlestar Galactica a few times. Just bizzare. Didn’t a Coles Myer CEO do time for fraud?

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