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  • Open Thread – Weekend 17 Dec 2022

    The Luncheon, Claude Monet, 1873

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #49

    B movies In old Hollywood, B grade movies identified films intended for distribution as the less-publicised bottom half of a double feature. However, this practice largely ceased by the end of the 1950s with the studios changing their departments into TV production divisions. B movies often represented a particular genre e.g. westerns while low-budget science-fiction and horror…

  • Arizona Election Contest

    Over the weekend, lawyers for Kerri Lake filed a lawsuit against Katie Hobbs, both as contestee and in her capacity f Secretary of State, and various election officials of Maricopa County, re the gubernatorial election in Arizona this past mid-term election. You can find the lawsuit filed here. The vote margin at present is 17,117…

  • Open Thread – Tue 13 Dec 2022

    The Census at Bethlehem, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1566

  • The War in Ukraine: Past, Present and Future: A Conversation between Michael Vlahos and Douglas Macgregor

    This is a superb discussion involving two well-placed interlocutors, who have been in the middle of international and strategic affairs for at least the last four decades. It comes in three parts. The first looks at the war in Ukraine, its antecedents, and its prospects, particular whether the situation is entering its culminating phase. The…

  • Peace-Mongering, Ukraine style

    News Reports and Analysis Daily Mail, 30th November, 2021 The Daily Mail reported that three gatherings of some Downing Street staff had taken place during November and December of 2020. This was the lifting of the lid on the cesspool of cynicism that characterised the political response to Covid-19 all over the Western world, with…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 10 Dec 2022

    The Pont de Arts and the Institut de France, August Renoir, 1867

  • Wokey Women

    Being Christmas, this is the time of year I get to attend work lunches at fancy Sydney restaurants. Yesterday, I attended another such lunch, it was my third in a week, about twenty of us went to a particularly good CBD restaurant. I don’t enjoy these lunches. Why? Well, I like to keep my social…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #48

    Yipee-ki-yay, motherfucker Was the catchphrase used by New York police detective John McClane in the action thriller Die Hard. Since it’s release back in 1988, Die Hard has stood the test of time to be considered one of the best action thrillers ever made. And because of its’ Christmas setting it has become a favourite…

  • Open Thread – Tue 6 Dec 2020

    Mary and Joseph on the Way to Bethlehem, Hugo van der Goes, 1475

  1. Arky:”Other than that, you seem to have a firm grasp on how we got here today, but you could brush…

  3.  I recall something about a secret deal between the British and frog senior military.  Yes, that went on for years…

  4. I doubt that 2023 EVs will ever be significant collector’s items, not least because you will need a block and…

  5. This is the point at which desperate people start hanging bureaucrats. And not before time.

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