New Catallaxy

  • 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

  • Pride cometh before the fall into dissolution

    I read today (20 March) in the UK Telegraph that an 81-year-old Tory councillor of Witham town council in Essex England, Angela Kilmartin, has been stood down for a Facebook post. This what she wrote: “I don’t want Pride sex flags along my high street. I don’t even want heterosexual flags along my high street.…

  • Sheriff Popper cleaning up

    As noted, Cool Hand Karl is back, hanging out with his deputies in a smoke-free salon to drink weak tea, and shoot the breeze with Bach and Mozart playing in the background. Three of his contributions to mention here (1) the White Pill, (2) against wrecking markets by discretionary intervention, and (3) his exposure of…

  1. One of my brothers-in-law says that Colorado used to be a solid red state until inundated by Californians.

  2. Oh, the horrors! How did I ever survive Black Saturday in 2009, when the temperature in Melbourne reached 46.4 C?

  3. The Pope’s Genocide Cowardice – Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org a truly evil pope

  4. As of 2012, only 52.8 per cent of Tasmanian men and 46.9 per cent of Tasmanian women possess an OECD…

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