Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Housing woes - oh, and they're in the UK

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Dear old William Rees-Mogg has a typically pithy article in the Times. Change the context to NZ, and his comments are still apropos. Espe...
Monday, April 23, 2007

We'll have to coin a new shorthand for this

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Darwin is hard at work again, here . Used to be 'Fish, Barrel, Shoot' as a shorthand for, well, shooting fish in a barrel. Taunting...
Sunday, April 15, 2007

Solar independence

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Th is is good news. There are several companies very active in the CIGS field now ( Nanosolar , Miasole , Konarka , Heliovolt ) and there ...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Those darned House Prices

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This analysis (which, funnily enough, blames investors, and this rather better one , which blames the stoopid Gummint, are both about the s...
Friday, December 08, 2006

Crikey!

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The funniest Aussie in Iraq strikes a pose .
Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Green, lean and mean....

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This leetle auto is my idea of Green heaven. Somehow, I don't think those ever-earnest actual political Greens are going to be adverti...
Monday, June 12, 2006

Z's dead, baby

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This line is part of a now-classic sequence from Quentin Taratino's movie: Pulp Fiction. The context: "Who's bike is that?...
Friday, May 12, 2006

Mahmoud of Xerxes

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This Radio Blogger piece, featuring Mark Steyn and Hugh Hewitt, is a Lileks translation of the now-famous 18-page Iranian letter from one p...
Monday, March 27, 2006

Greens lack a Defence policy (quell surprise...)

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A defence policy, people, resources and equipment to do the dirty deeds, and training etc is just what I expect my hard-won and reluctantly ...

First Duty of Gummint - Security

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This was my substantive comment on the Campbell and Fisk thread..... The first duty of Gummint is the physical security of its citoyens. Fis...

Tweaking Fwogs - the CPT release

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And in today’s crowning irony, solidly built chaps (and possibly chapesses, if the Special Forces have Embraced Diversity), armed with nasty...
Tuesday, March 07, 2006

That Census

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Which seems to be causing a good deal of angst as folk try to figure out ethnicity, religion and other stuff that eludes, say, DNA analysis ...
Friday, February 17, 2006

The West - address by Keith Windschuttle

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In li'l ol' NZ, no less, A thoughtful piece , and as usual, backed up by historical research. With my having just finished Simon ...
Thursday, February 09, 2006

Dem 'Toons

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Lots of heat and little light in our own benighted and multi-culti-infested media warrens. Antidotes hereby prescribed: Belmont Club has a ...
Friday, February 03, 2006

Great read for strategic minds

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In stark contrast to the woolly-headed claptrap encountered in most comments about grand strategy, this piece hits the spot quite nicely. ...
Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Canadian election - Liberal values

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Bit scary : try replacing 'Paul Martin' with 'Helen Clark' and the shoe mostly still fits.....

Housing Hi-jinks

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Not pc has a good note about affordability and its inverse relationship to planning and land-use regulation. But when you look at the actu...
Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Laugh, damn near peed myself

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Green Speechwriting , over at Sir Humph's.

Some good stuff

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Culture Cult has some good new articles up. Eamon Duffy's seminal book on the English Reformation has been re-released with new resear...
Thursday, January 12, 2006

Cute phrases

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Fitzsimons lied, foliage died. Giving it the 'Fitzsimons Flick' Russia as ' Nigeria with permafrost ' (ht: TCS)