Back in March last year, I wrote a post on the Liberal Party’s Moira Problem, ie the problem that the Liberal Party had in dealing with the newly elected The Honourable Moira Deeming MLC after her participation in a rather chaotic gender identity rally which was gate crashed by neo-Nazi morons. I mostly restricted my …
Author Archives: Ernest Zanatta
Apocalocyntosis
The Ancient Roman philosopher Seneca was not quite as stoic as reputation made him out to be. He could not help but feel a degree of spite and vengefulness, as evidenced when he celebrated the death of his enemy, the Emperor Cladius, which he welcomed with spiteful glee. The evidence of this is the short …
The Impermanence of a Stock Exchange Listing
Years ago when I first started learning about investing in the share market, I remember reading, in one or other of the various books I had bought to teach myself about share investing, that the author observed that many large companies did not remain listed on the stock exchange. He mentioned various big name companies …
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My White Elephant Solar Panels
This morning, I feel like Peter Dutton is really onto something with his suggestion for rolling out nuclear power. After all, nuclear power is safe and clean as a source of electricity right across Western Europe, where people enjoy the sort of sophisticated technology which the First World creates. Even that annoying Greta Thornburg is …
The Imminent Demise Of Lambrusco?
Being Australian means that my default red wine is Shiraz. My preference is for the big, sugary, high in alcohol version of Shiraz that you usually find in North Eastern Victoria, particularly around Rutherglen. I am not too finicky though, and I am fine with most dry reds – for instance, my best friend and …
Should I Adopt A New Investment Strategy?
Telstra shares hit an all time high of $9.20 in February 1999. I know this for certain because at the time I had 600 shares in the company from the original T1 float, and had temporarily moved to Canberra for a few months in late January 1999 – it was a moment I could well …
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The Stultification Of Literature: The Real Threat From Artificial Intelligence
Not that anyone can tell too closely from my library (which is sorted in what I call ‘autobiographical order’), but I have a marked preference for the works of Anthony Trollope over those of Charles Dickens. I am pretty sure that I have read all of his novels and most of his short stories, although …
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Rise Of The Street Libraries
I’ve always been a bit of a Tom Wolfe fan, back since I read The Right Stuff at age 16. The movie, which was made around that time, remains one of my all time favourite films (indeed, you might have read something I wrote here a few years ago comparing the movie to the new …
Canary Black: Kate Beckinsale Continues To Play To Her Typecast….
I did not really notice Kate Beckinsale in her first major role – which was the oddly named Hero in the Branagh version of Much Ado About Nothing circa 1993. To be fair, how could you? The leads were Branagh as Benedick and Emma Thompson as Beatrice, and the chemistry between them was amazing. And …
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At the Insignia Financial Group AGM
In the almost 17 months since I retired from work, I have started making an effort to attend corporate AGMs where I have a direct or indirect interest. [Direct interest is where I am a shareholder. Indirect interest is where I get my mother to appoint me as a proxy to vote her shares in …
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