Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, Utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
— Vernon Louis Parrington, born in 1871
At high tide this afternoon, Shoalhaven City Council opened Shoalhaven Heads to the ocean.
In a fiat money system knowing how money is created. I addressed this issue yesterday. It is equally important to know how money is destroyed,
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The Atlantic – No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world. “The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has sickened more than 16.5 million people across six continents. It is raging in countries that never contained the virus. It is resurging in many of the ones that did. If there was ever a time when this coronavirus could be contained, it has probably passed
Scott was fired over a Hitler meme. Now his boss has to pay him $200,000
Why so much regional inequality in Britain(The Economist)
Both of these supposed Gauguins look like fakes to me
Shruti on Indian Matchmaking(Bloomberg)
A sort of funny tweet stream about cross-national comparisons of corporate tax laws
New and positive results on deworming
“Zombie cicadas” infected with mind-controlling fungus return to West Virginia
Small business ombudsman awards contracts to Liberal-linked firm without tender
The ombudsman’s office said it did not use a procurement process to award Agenda C the contracts – worth $79,840, $79,922, and $31,989 – because they each fell below the procurement threshold of $80,000.
Is R doomed to converge to roughly one?
Rent prices in major U.S. cities are plummeting
The economics of SPACs. And Lawfare on TikTok
Coleman Hughes on Thomas Sowell, with biographical anecdotes too
WHO COULD FORESEE SUCH A THING? (OTHER THAN EVERYONE?): Rape suspect released amid COVID-19 kills accuser: cops.
Aged care homes: the weakest COVID-19 link
A pandemic throws a perfect mirror onto a society and shines a light on every crack. There is no better illustration of this than the light that COVID-19 is throwing on aged care homes in Australia and internationally.Continue reading