New Catallaxy

  • Meme of the Day #63

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #47

    Men of Harlech The Battle of Rorke’s Drift between a small British army contingent and a huge army of Zulus in January 1879 was memorably presented in the splendid 1964 film Zulu which depicts how 150 British soldiers successfully held off an army of 4,000 Zulu warriors. The battle followed on after the Battle of…

  • You’re the farm

    I was stooged again by the missus and ended up at Southland Shopping Centre on Sunday. She’s got a way of making lunch not seem like shopping and I fell for it again like the pasty I am. So there’s a new Japanese that seems nice and the missus told me about the robots that…

  • Open Thread – Tue 29 Nov 2022

    Joseph’s Dream, Rembrandt, 1645

  • All we can do is think of England

    Changes in my personal life meant that I was forced to downsize in 2014. My new (small) place is ultra-convenient. No need for a car so I didn’t buy one, until now. Didn’t fancy dying carless. Ordered a new yellow MG hatch in mid-May. I cancelled at the end of October, have been told yet…

  • Support The Voice

    Enshrine racism in the Constitution Karl Popper defended equalitarian justice by which he meant equality before non-discriminatory laws and an equal distribution of the limitations on freedom that are required for a functional society. Traditional or individualistic justice, as described by Popper in his critique of Plato, “calls for equal treatment of the citizens before…

  • Open Thread – Weekend 26 Nov 2022

    Boulevard Montmartre – Spring Rain, Camille Pissarro, 1897

  • Roundup 25 Nov

    The New Energy Narrative It’s Time for a new narrative, a new Energy Story. The game has changed, not officially and not among the True Believers but every month it will get clearer to anyone who bothers to check. We are in damage control. The exit from coal, gas and oil has just about run…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #46

    Biopics . . . have been a staple of cinema for ever and a day in dramatising the life of a historically-based or non-fictional person or people. Such films show the life of a historical person and they differ from docudrama films and historical drama films in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a single person’s…

  • SA the wind-leader!

    This morning on Wednesday Nov 23 South Australia is in a wind drought. The wind-leading state is demonstrating the great green future of Australia as we pretend to transition from coal. Before sunrise SA was importing power from Victoria and drawing almost 30% of its demand from the wind, with 70% from gas, with a…

  1. It’s obvious – any Govt. recognised “refugee” who returns to the country he “fled” while the alleged dangerous condition still…

  3. Well, call him a dickhead. Tell him Julia Roberts, another hollywood hack, was prettier than him in Pretty Woman.

  4. I really worry about Trump; these bastards in the fbi and cia and other demorat stuffed agencies are going to…

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