New Catallaxy

  • The spectre of wind droughts

    Britain and Germany are in deep trouble with their power supplies and wind droughts are the root of the problem. You can imagine a book to be written one day called How Wind Droughts Destroyed Western Civilization. Texas in 2021 gave us a glimpse of the future when the wind died and the temperature fell…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 22 April 2023

  • Good Cop, Bad Cop on Sky

    Andrew Bolt interviewed Lidia Thorpe’s (white) father on Thursday evening. How that happened who knows. Did Roy Illingworth knock on Bolt’s door? Did Bolt approach Mr Illingworth? Were commercial terms involved?  What is clear is that Illingworth would have done better not to do the interview. Bolt asked him some personal questions about his daughter…

  • Liberalism, rhetoric, and argumentative decline

    Of the many things that are apparent in the present debate over transgenderism and its implications, I find two things recurring here that occurred previously in the marriage debate. Firstly, the proponents of marriage redefinition invoked a rhetoric of ‘exclusion’ by default; and thus the issue from the outset was one couched in terms of…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #67

    Those who about to die salute you With the introduction of cinemascope/widescreen in 1953 starting with The Robe, cinema saw a growing popularity of Biblical/historical epics throughout the 1950s and 1960s. One of the best, and, certainly one of the most discussed was Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 film Spartacus. The film was inspired by the life…

  • A flurry of “voice” own goals.

    Australians have been warned that if the voice does not receive approval then it will be the end of Welcome to Country, says Marcia Langton. I suspect that for many, many Aussies a future without WtCs is an agreeable thought. If the voice referendum fails with the result that the WtC recitations permanently became a…

  • Open Thread – Tues 18 April 2023

  • The Lawson & Thomas show

    Book here. Mark Lawson, a versatile writer and fellow traveller with energy realism, has put together a book on the dismantling of the power grid. Those who want to buy the book Dark Ages, the looming destruction of the Australian power grid  can follow the link. There will be a launch & lunch in Melbourne, with veteran…

  • 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.…

  2. Rand Paul Drops the Hammer: Denver Mayor May Be REMOVED FROM OFFICE Over Defiance of Trump’s Deportation — ‘It’s a…

  3. Just tell that to any dickhead who reckons 2020 was clean. Especially as Joe never left his basement.

  4. Interesting stat concerning POTUS popular vote numbers: Obuma first time 69 mill Obuma 2 65 mill Shrillary 65 mill Cackles…

  5. Anyway, the Tasmanian wilderness, beloved of the Greens and their fellow travellers, reminds us that Mother Nature just wants to…

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