from John Passant ….

The collapse in profit rates in much of the developed world in the late 1960s and early 1970s saw the ruling class abandon Keynesianism and embrace what we now call neoliberalism.

Pity western Sydney.

The Liberal (conservative) Party should be called the The Misogynist Conservative Party... 

When Menzies, the father of the "Liberal" Party chose the name for a conglomeration of ultra-conservative parties, his choice was a deliberate misnomer that has conned people ever since.

Map published in Le Monde — mischief by Gus leonisky...

Who is society? There is no such thing. There are individual men and women, and there are families.

Margaret Thatcher, 1987.

They are often described as “The Unholy Trinity” – a trio of ferociously bright and pugilistic academics who use science to decimate what they believe to be the world’s greatest folly: religion.

About 60,000 cabinets that look like stretched refrigerators will be installed on footpaths under the Coalition's national broadband network, bringing criticism from urban designers.

But opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull said he had learned from the "British experience" where Londoners complained about bulky green cabinets blighting their neighbourhoods.

Alain de Botton is starting to irk me...

from our friend, Dr. Vacy Vlazna

“Everything depends on our propelling force. And what is that force? The misery of the Jews” (Theodor Herzl, father of Zionism)

 The news out there has different paces... You get the run of the crap-mill tabloid press at news.com.au and you get the literary essays at the Monthly... One always has a .22 riding shotgun by the side of the computer to shoot the strays. 

The CSIRO has duped one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies into buying anti-counterfeit technology that could be easily compromised - passing off cheap chemicals it had bought from China as a ''trade secret'' formula.