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The agency that hounded Bill Leak into an early grave isn't fussed by its staffers' support for Hamas
Oct 03 2024
19 mins
The Vance-Walz debate prompts a column that's more of a steaming pile
Oct 03 2024
3 mins
Our shambling excuse for a government is intent on suppressing opinions, even facts, it doesn't like
Oct 03 2024
9 mins
Joe Dolce: Sense of Out-of-Place
Sense of Out-of-Place
Barbecue.
Unincorporated community in North Carolina.
Bastardstown.
Townland in Wexford, Ireland (Irish name: Baile Bhastaird).
Batman.
City, in Turkey, threatened to sue Warner Bros for use of name.
Bitch Mountain.
Summit in Essex County, New York.
Boring, Oregon.
Sister city to Dull, Scotland, and Bland, NSW.
Boquete.
Small town in Panama. (Boquete is Portuguese slang for “blowjob”.)
California.
After an island, in the Spanish novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (1500), inhabited only by black women, ruled by Queen Calafia.
Port Circumcision.
Cove in Petermann Island, Antarctica.
Coffin Top.
Mountain in South Georgia.
Dead Women Crossing.
Bridge in Custer County, Oklahoma, haunted by ghost of murdered woman.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.
Area in Rocky Mountain foothills.
Idiotville.
Ghost town in Oregon.
Nowhere Else.
Town in Tasmania.
Once Brewed and Twice Brewed.
Two villages in Northumbria.
Ragged Ass Road.
Street in Yellowknife, Canada.
Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!
Town in Saguenay, Quebec.
Swastika.
1908 mining town in northern Ontario.
Zzyzx.
Town in California. (Also, the name of a film. Box office gross: $30.)
Joe Dolce
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
Sep 25 2024
5 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins
