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  • 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

  • A new Winslow Boy case

    The Brittany Higgins sexual assault case – now aborted – has left in legal limbo the accused, Bruce Lehrmann. This is unacceptable in a country that has the common law doctrine of innocent until proven guilty at the heart of its justice system. Lehrmann’s current difficulties remind me of another case. Though of very different…

  • Callow Pipedreams ahead? Already here

    I see that Jacinda Ardern is intent on lowering the voting age to sixteen in New Zealand. It’s a developing trend. Let’s face it, nobody remotely believes that the voting age will be restored to twenty-one from where it should never have been lowered. All the impetus, from the left and from the greenies, is…

  • Roundup 4 Dec

    Roundup of Partners and Fellow-Travellers Drop in and see what they are up to! IPA         Climate and energy program  CIS          The Sydney Institute Menzies Research Centre  Mannkal Economics Education Foundation           Advance Australia  Taxpayers Alliance  Australian Institute for Progress Save these dates 15 December at 6.0 Sydney time. Menzies Research Institute webinar forum for representatives of rural communities…

  • Rabz’ Radio Show December 2022: Covers and the Covered

    It’s always “interesting” to discover that a song you may have assumed was written by a certain artist or band turns out to be a cover. A classic example of this is posted below as the first of the intro tracks. Another interesting aspect of covers relates to the lively discussion/arguments/shouting matches that might arise…

  • Mater’s Musings #64: A little hypocrisy, now and then, never hurt anybody

    Then (9 months ago): Now:

  • Open Thread – Weekend 3 Dec 2022

    The Rector’s Garden – Queen of the Lilies, John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1877

  2. Or stop visiting the US, buying their crappy streaming services, crappy military gear, watching their B grade sports etc. There…

  3. unusual_whales@unusual_whales·3hJUST IN: President Donald Trump suggested that Elon Musk’s government efficiency team has found irregularities in US treasuries, per BloombergEveryone…

  4. Gupta seems to be in a bit of bother. Coal workers stood down as mining group’s debts mount (Paywallian) Over…

  5. For a moment there I thought it was the Washington DC bishop again but it appears Canada has worse fake…

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