Two really interesting posts on the war Russia started on Ukraine.
Firstly we have Jeet Heer from the time of monsters with is-putin-the-problem. Check out the worrying video.
Next we have Noah Smith from noahopinion on china-has-a-fateful-choice-to-make. Okay it is a bit of a stretch but it is good.
NBN problems persist.
Here is Neil Young joining Booker T and the MGs and doing All along the watchtower.
Enjoy
Last week we did not have the internet or the phone from Wednesday to late Friday. The same has occurred from Sunday morning.
Life without the internet is very boring remembering that Kayo and Netflix are on line products. Add in doing things such as banking and you feel helpless and the Library becomes a lifeline.
aghhhhh!
It is time again for Around the Traps. No internet for some time this week so I could have missed some articles.
Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy
Northern America
Europe
Asia
Wonk
General
Climate
Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)
Econometrics
Dianne Coyle
Vox Wonk
The floods have been horrific. Thousands of houses and hotel rooms are gone for a long time. It will take a long time to construct any sort of housing to replace them. Thus where are people going to live? In tents? Worse where will all the tradies needed for the construction live whilst they attempt to build all these houses? Where is all the waste going to go?
When are we going to work out where people can live? A lot of these people were not insured because of the cost. This will increase after the floods. Are people for the government really happy to pick up the tab on this. We have now seen two 1 in a 100 ( or 1%) events in two years!
If governments successfully use mitigation techniques then all is good but this is unlikely. We really need a good think about this before we jump in and then repeat the same mistakes we have made in the past.
Shane Warne dies of a heart attack on the weekend one day after Rod Marsh died of the same thing. you expect a man of 74 to die of a heart attack if it is a biggy. you rarely expect a amn of 52 to do the same thing.
Shane Warne was the greatest spinner in the history of the game. Ironically he had little variety. He basically bowled legspinners. Beautiful well flighted legspinners. He rarely bowled a googly. His flipper was a bewdy but again springly used. although he talked up a whole heap of deliveries he had, invariably he invented a new one before a test series, it was all bulldust.
He could inspire team mates and was a good leader when given the chance although off field activities meant he would never captain Australia.
Off the field he was called a larrikin. I think that is what we call womanisers here. He treated women terribly and marriage meant nothing to him.The less said about his foundation the better.
In some ways he was similar to Ian Botham. When young he could get away with a big night and play well the next day. As he got older it got much harder. Like most womaniser he was vain. Fancy getting a face lift to try and keep looking young.
He did not have any sort of intellect and in terms of cricket I rarely heard him say anything of interest but he did understand what brand Shane Warne was. He was very street smart and so made a lot of money.
In the end he got away with things on the cricket field he should not have. He never understood showing respect to your opponent which is essential if the spirit of cricket is to succeed. He also never had a McGrath moment which changed his behaviour.
In all a great shame.
It is time again for Around the Traps. All Ukraine articles under Europe
Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy
Northern America
Europe
Asia
Wonk
General
Climate
Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)
Econometrics
Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)
Vox Wonk
