Friday, October 28, 2005

New links

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(ht: PC ) - Having linked Roger Sandall myself, delighted to discover a Keith Windschuttle site. Both are of the old pre-post-modernist s...
Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Shock! Horror! Galloway lied!

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(ht - Sir Humph's ) There was never much doubt that GG was guilty as charged - where there's smoke etc. But isn't it rather del...
Saturday, October 22, 2005

Back to Blighty

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For a smaller jaunt this time: just 4 weeks, divided roughly into: London, 1 long week - part work, part play, part Birmingham conference. ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Diamond scratched

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I thoroughly enjoyed Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" , although did think that his insistence on including New Guinea ...
Sunday, October 09, 2005

State of Fear

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Ever since reading Michael Crighton's pot-boiler , then looking around me with a newly jaded eye, I have been very aware that cultivati...
Thursday, October 06, 2005

Couple letters boint out in the sign

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That's a fragment from a favourite Tom waits song: "A sweet little bullet from a pretty blue gun" - on Blue Valentines . The...
Friday, September 30, 2005

Happiness through exercise of Intellect

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Found this (circuitously) from Leighton Smith's well-organised web site (asp's, no less). The money quote (got to stop using that...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Fisking Nipper(t)

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Matt Nippert is a young Lefty (what else?) journalist at the Listener and has an article in this weeks' issue. Fisking this is the old...

Germany, Canada and lil' ol' NZ.....

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David Warren has another swipe at the management of long-term decline: the money quote: "The SPD is to Germany as the Liberals to Can...
Tuesday, September 20, 2005

About that German election

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As usual, Mark Steyn draws an apt analogy. Now consider our own fair situation once we hook up all those viable wombs hard-working famil...

Listening to

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As little TV and radio as possible. The shallowness of what passes for dear little NZ's public political commentary is just too much. ...
Monday, September 12, 2005

Metal in Melbourne

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Back in the glorious city (and a great boutique hotel) for a whole week, in the implementation phase of a leetle project. Let no-one kid you...
Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Tribes (ht: Instapundit)

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Just RTWT .
Monday, September 05, 2005

That ol' welfare state shtick...

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This post linked by Bill Quick hisself, encapsulates all that is wrong with the welfare state. There have always been two broad ways to ge...

Polls, Katrina and Gaia

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Great to hear the Colmar Brunton polls (insert usual caveats here) having National leading. On the Aged parents run last night, interesting ...
Thursday, August 18, 2005

Reading Viewing Listening - Lists

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Having been treated to a week in Melbourne on a project, caught the Dutch Masters exhibition at NGV . Highlights: Not the Vermeer (sorry!) -...
Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Gaia's revenge on Renewable Energy Policy

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Not too long after our own little local 1-turbine Windy Power For the Masses experiment up on Gebbie's Pass was destroyed by a ' sud...
Monday, June 06, 2005

A healthy (EU) Constitution

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Telegraph | Opinion | A healthy Constitution is a succinct, pointed and thoroughly deserved riposte to the bloated, anti-democratic Pan-Eur...
Thursday, May 26, 2005

Sigh - another blogger says it better (if with a Canuck accent...)

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This post from the ever-readable Gods of the Copybook Headings blog, demonstrates yet again the universality of human nature, and the ultim...
Thursday, April 21, 2005

Belly laugh of the day

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Dr Suarez has read of DAS SNOW BOOT : What will those nastily clever narco-traffickers be able to purchase next? Sure saves laundering mone...