New Catallaxy

  • Knowing Hiding where the bodies are buried

    Moving to a “post pandemic world,” two Australian states – Queensland and Western Australia – have made two of their most senior pandemic response public servants – QLD’s former CHO Jeanette Young and W.A.’s Commissioner of Police, State Emergency Co-ordinator and previously its Vaccine Commander, Chris Dawson – their respective state’s new vice-regal appointees. In…

  • Trump’s star rising and he’s absolutely right about stolen election

    On the editorial page of The Oz today there was an article by Adam Creighton with the following heading: Trump’s star rising but he’s dead wrong about stolen election. How incredible and how disappointing, I said to myself, that the only journalist in Australia who writes honestly about the American political system has now gone…

  • WolfmanOz at the Movies #20

    Broadsword calling Danny Boy Post WWII, one of the most popular genres for approx. 30 years was the war adventure/action film where, whether it be land, sea or air, the films would provide escapist entertainment reinforcing the image of the Allied victory against both the Germans and the Japanese. The anti-war messages tended to be…

  • Meme of the Day #41

  • Open Thread – Tuesday 10 May 2022

  • Guest Post: Speedbox -Postcard from Kislovodsk #2

    Mrs Speedbox is still in Kislovodsk, Russia, although she returns in a few days.  The following are additional observations that may be of interest to Cats. 1.  With regard to reporting on the war, Russian television is the polar opposite to what we see here in Australia in terms of partiality.  That won’t be a…

  • Moderates versus Airheads. Like versus like?

    Ten little nondescripts trawling for some votes. Nine didn’t make the grade then there was one. My federal electorate is North Sydney, where Trent Zimmerman is the sitting member. Yes, I know, I have your sympathies. There are ten candidates for the seat, including Trent. I have seen Trent twice on the hustings. Once outside…

  • Guest Post: Wally Dali goes to the Archibalds, 2022

    Of course, I’m nowhere near actually going to see the paintings in the flesh at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, even if the Chief Protector of Natives would let me depart Western Australia, which he won’t. To access it, here, I had to first check an automatically generated box to declare that I…

  • Keynesian economics and the Magic Pudding

    The level of economic ignorance and stupidity has reached such astronomical levels that I can make the forecast that Australia is heading for many years of falling real incomes and a vast increase in the level of poverty. You really have to stand in amazement at how little flak this morning’s front page in The…

  • Rabz’ Radio Show May 2022: the Sixties  

    The Sixties has a rightful claim as the period in time that produced the most memorable contemporary music in human history. So many genres came to prominence, including: ·         Jazz ·         Folk ·         R&B ·         Soul ·         Rock ·         Psychedelia John F Kennedy – elected 1960, assassinated 1963. During those years, a seismic cultural wave across the Anglosphere was brewing. Motown…

  2. Frank Sheed in ‘Theology for Beginners’ addresses ‘God has to speak to me from the sky’ and says, quite reasonably,…

  4. Rabz April 20, 2024 6:32 pm Cats, I’m not prone to panicking, except when I’m in Detroit … https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/15.0.3/svg/1f615.svg No panic in Detroit…

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