New Catallaxy

  • I fear that the Voice will be a shoo-in

    Let’s be pessimistic or is it realistic. Suppose the Voice gets up in the referendum. We’ll have thirty-five local and regional bodies coalescing into either state and territory bodies from which twenty-four reps will emerge to form the Voice. Or at least that’s the proposed model in the Calma-Langton report. It’s an opaque process. Probably…

  • Sliding towards polyamorous ‘marriage’

    It was clear during and following the public discussion of gay ‘marriage’ that there was no in-principle argument among the majority of its proponents that could present a stumbling block for polyamorous ‘marriage’. If people could not recognize that marriage was a union of the opposite sexes, given its ends, how could they further recognize…

  • Nicolai Petro’s The Tragedy of Ukraine

    The above is an informative discussion of Nicolai Petro’s The Tragedy of Ukraine. It covers areas that haven’t been discussed in much detail in the West, generally, at least in the MSM, particularly the regional (Galician) character of Ukrainian nationalism, its origins in the 19th and early 20th Century, its attempt to establish a particular…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 14 Jan 2023

    Girl at a Sewing Machine, Edward Hopper, 1921

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #53

    Man is the warmest place to hide 1982 was a seminal year for science fiction movies, of which there were three outstanding films of the genre released, all of which were quite different in style and audience engagement. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial was on its way to becoming the highest grossing film of all-time; Blade Runner…

  • South Australia does it again

    Not to mention Victoria. At sunrise this morning SA was importing 40% of their power and two thirds of local generation came from gas. They are “independent” when the Capacity Factor of the wind is 40 or 50% or more, well above the average of 29%. This morning it was 12%. Victoria and Tasmania (the…

  • Support for the new energy narrative

    According to the new narrative, flagged here on the New Catallaxy, wind and solar power are unsustainable, dirty, expensive and catastrophic for the environment. The root of the problem is the fake science news that is put about by the collection of vested interests that apparently hate the western world and everything that makes for…

  • It’s time to celebrate men and masculinity

    There is a Yiddish word I am sure many here have heard of before. The word is “mensch”. Mensch, in its original meaning, is not a word to be used flippantly. Calling a man a mensch is a serious compliment, to be used sparingly, it’s a word of praise that extols the virtues of a…

  • Back to the age of climate-driven superstition

    In recent blog on Quadrant Online, I referred to a Mr Ted O’Connor of Prince Charles Parade, in the suburb of Kernell in Sydney, who in 1956 expressed concern about the danger of high seas eroding homes along the Parade; which runs alongside the seafront.  “Fifty houses at Kurnell are in danger of toppling into…

  • WIND FAILS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA

    BUSINESS AS USUAL Pressing on with the new energy story that was sketched here not long ago. The so-called green energy transition has hit the wall. Worldwide, trillions of dollars of investment have shifted the contribution of organic (hydrocarbon or fossil) fuel from about 82% of total energy use to 80 or 81%.  In Australia…

  1. Taylor Sheridan, who wrote and made Yellowstone, has a new series coming soon. Landman. Watch the two minute clip. Definitely…

  2. A writer of the time recorded admiringly of Queen Elizabeth 1 – “ She bathes every month, whether she needs…

  4. Must’ve run out of cats, dogs and geese. The Trump Effect: Haitian Migrants Self-Deport from Springfield, Ohio (25 Nov) With…

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