• Life imitates art

    The Lumberjack Song first appeared in 1969. This takes you back to 1979.

  • When words don’t count, God’s on your side, and privilege equals equality

    “As I have pointed out repeatedly the only point of contention is constitutional enshrinement, the rest is noise.” So says Chris Kenny in the Weekend Australian. The only point? Yes, that’s right. That is the whole and complete point of the referendum. All kinds of stupid legislation is routinely enacted – net zero, for example.…

  • What to do about wokeness?

    The conservative vagabond poses the question. Is there a coherent strategy for all the different groups that are under attack? Can we work together or are our disagreements too large to overlook? What do we need to do differently to be more effective? Who are the most interesting/challenging/helpful/original thinkers in this space?

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #66

    Star of stage, screen and alimony Was the epitaph suggested for himself by actor and comedian Peter Sellers. Sellers was a prodigious talent, touching on genius at times, although almost all of his best work had been completed by the mid 1960s. Born Richard Henry Sellers in 1925. He began accompanying his parents in a…

  • Liberty quote

    The process of self-transcendence through mutual growth and feedback is something that can be achieved in all walks of life and in all fields. It is possible for us to achieve it in our personal relations. It may not depend only on us, and it may lead to disappointments. But isappointments are met with in…

  • The looming Dark Age

    Mark Lawson, a versatile writer and fellow traveller with energy realism, has put together a book on the dismantling of the power grid. This grew out of a project to publish the briefing notes of the Energy Realists of Australia in a book. He took up the idea but abandoned the structure of the notes…

  • Rebranding the Liberals

    Lets try hippie conservatism A few thoughts, inspired by the example of Brian Penton, Karl Popper, Barry Humphries, Zorba the Greek (a man needs a little madness,) Yossarian (Catch 22) and the meditations of Montaigne, Oakeshott, Scruton and the conservative vagabond. Some want the party to be more conservative and some people want it to…

  • Men Ain’t Women and Vice Versa

    The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, published the results of some research in 2017 which was directed to try to explain the different incidences of particular diseases in men and women. Researchers analysed 20,000 different genes, sorting them by sex and for differences in expression in each body tissue. They found that around 6,500 of…

  1. Sterner thinks he’s a commie. remember Arafat was bankrolled by the ussr. steimer is like all his type eg Gillard…

  2. @Jules31415 Tucker Carlson: “I actually don’t really want to show up in somebody else’s state and like attack their politicians…but…

  3. @GuntherEagleman Holy sht!Even CNN is being forced to tell the American people how BAD Kamala’s polling is.The polls have NEVER…