Holiday fun times: Define Asia
Given it's still the offseason, I thought we might want to revisit an passtime of a previous time. When I was a child in the...
Why are there so few Filipino restaurants?
On Sunday I ate at a Filipino restaurant. This was a first; prior experiences of Filipino food had been solely at friends' houses. Restaurants were...
Modernity, autonomy decentralisation
I think Adam Smith thought of modern commercial society as gradually diffusing power throughout the society and both creating and enabling a world in which...
Krugman gets heavy
I’ve had a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach ever since the final stages of the 2008 campaign. I remembered the upsurge in...
Most fatuous bit of media punditry for 2011
Not two weeks gone - and this: Labor needs a comeback. Fast. Julia Gillard's dogged insistence she will return the budget to surplus in 2012-13...
Groupthink: the enemy within
As I sometimes do I was tapping away on a blog post and then thought I'd like to give it greater exposure. So I didn't...
The retailers should have gone partisan
That was quick. It only took a week for media consensus on the retail campaign by Gerry Harvey and others, in contrast to the consensus...