• Weekend Reading #7

    IM-1776‘s Mark Granza talks to Steve Bannon about the populist uprising in Italy, Trump, the GAE and more. Darren Beattie at Revolver News dives deeper into the FBI’s Jan 6 pipe bomb hoax. Big Serge looks at recent events in the Russo-Ukrainian War from a Clausewitzian lens. What is behind the uprising in Iran and…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #39

    Hell will hold no surprises for them . . . 1971 was quite a year for controversial films – from Stanley Kubrick’s dystopian A Clockwork Orange to Sam Peckinpah’s blood drenched Straw Dogs to Luchino Visconti’s adaption of Death In Venice, but none had the impact of Ken Russell’s historical drama The Devils which graphically…

  • Guest Post: Dr. Faustus – Abide with Me

    The Energy Security Board (ESB) is a member of the alphabet constellation of Australian electricity regulators and managers with their hands on the National Electricity Market (NEM). The ESB is tasked to report annually to government on the health of the NEM and ‘progress’ against the objectives of the Strategic Energy Plan.  The Strategic Energy…

  • Mater’s Musings #59: And they still can’t drink ‘til 18

    No. Sadly, it’s not a meme. It was bad enough when some of the twisted ideologues that I’ve seen fulfilling the roles of either Principal and/or Teacher, were merely ‘influencing’ my children. That they now have the ability to ‘bypass’ my authority (and responsibility) to determine what is best for my children, is horrifying. Just…

  • Rabz’ Radio Show Rocktober 2022: Psychedelia

    This is my favourite musical genre. As various R&B purveyors in the sixties got a bit older, they started experimenting with illicit substances other than amphetamines, such as THC, LSD, mescaline and psilocybin. Consequently, the music became far more complex (and occasionally extremely self-indulgent) and was meant to reflect an alternate consciousness, if getting totally…

  • Weekend Reading #6

    Ahmari and Schmitz argue that Trump is still the One at Compact. Katya Sedgwick looks at Russia’s Western Face at The American Conservative. Pedro Gonzalez on the contradictions facing Giorgia Meloni at Chronicles. Patrick Deneen never pulls his punches. Over at The PostLiberal Order he argues that the great awokening is the poisoned fruit of…

  • Weather telling a climate tale

    The hurricane season in the United States goes from June to November. Prior to Hurricane Ian, the season had been “remarkably quiet.” Strange business when climate change is roaring about causing havoc to human populations; and goodness knows how our cousins the animals are faring. Dying out, like polar bears, I would guess. Hurricane Ian…

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  2. Made not mad. Trump is very sane. Hairy and I intend to read Trump’s ‘The Art of the Deal’ while…

  3. We will be on a Qantas A380 tomorrow to Jo’berg, Tom, overnighting at airport hotel then flying down to Capetown…