New Catallaxy

  • Graphic to be sure, but a capital offence?

    I’m not on Twitter. Don’t follow anybody therefore, including Mark Latham. But I was watching Andrew Bolt this evening (Thursday) and he said he was banning Latham from ever again appearing on his show for something he tweeted. I forget exactly how he described it; something like a disgraceful homophobic slur, which Latham had since…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #64

    Not a lot of people know that Is the catchphrase that many impersonators use in mimicking Michael Caine which came from his habit of informing people of obscure facts that he had remembered. Celebrating his 90th birthday only a couple of weeks ago, Michael Caine has not only appeared in over 160 movies that has…

  • Open Thread – Tues 28 March 2023

  • Who would you fight for?

    Recently I had a casual exchange with contributor Bruce of Newcastle on the OT.  The guts of our remarks was the number of wars fought by Russia and how this had shaped their national psyche.  Further, that Western attitudes and policy towards Russia will continue to be largely ineffective, if not counterproductive, until the West…

  • The times are bad not Minns

    Chris Minns replacing Dominic Perrottet fazes me not at all. Apparently, Minns is on the right side of things within the Labor Party. Those on the right in the Labor Party are generally pragmatists. I think of Hawke and Keating on the federal stage and Neville Wran in NSW. I have done no thoroughgoing analysis…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 25 March 2023

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #63

    Tom, Dick and Harry Were the names given to the three tunnels that were used in the mass escape by British and Commonwealth POWs from the German POW camp Stalag Luft III. The film of course is The Great Escape (released in 1963) which depicts a heavily fictionalised version of the escape, with numerous compromises made…

  • Compare the pair

    Millions of words have been written about the creeping encroachment of NATO eastward towards the border of the Russian Federation. Recent media reports suggest the Turkey will soon drop its objections to Finland joining the bloc with only Hungary’s objections yet to be overcome.  One can only imagine the pressure Hungarian politicians will endure as…

  • Its the wind droughts, stupid.

    Comment on this post. This demonstrates the outcome of the Iron Triangle of Power Supply and the corollary, that wind and solar will not work with existing technology. There must be continuous input to the grid, wind droughts and especially windless nights wreck the continuity and there is no feasible storage to bridge the gaps.https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/02/the-iron-triangle-of-energy-realism/To…

  • Open Thread – Tues 21 March 2023

    Saturn Devouring his Son, Peter Paul Rubens, 1636

  1. Now they are heading back to the city, searchlights still busy all along the harbourside waters. Some sort of drug…

  2. As a woman, I find it disrespectful. Get a load of this errant nonsense of an economic plan coming from…

  3. Huge kerfuffle around here just now. A very large and extremely noisy police helicopter drew out all the neighbours and…

  4. Dunno Dover. My vague recollection is that the borders between the Bekaa Valley and the west of Syria were always…

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