Opinion Dominion

Happy to report that very sore throat has abated considerably.  Was still bad last evening, but after a few hours sleep I medicated at midni...

It's always a shock when a nutter in Japan kills someone, and yesterday's death of Shinzo Abe was a particularly dire example. To be...

This is day 3 of not feeling well, although day one was very mild.   The worst effect by far is a very sore throat that is only relieved by ...

I mean, nearly every word that comes out of her mouth is offensive, but this takes some beating...

The bars, the bars... I don't feel so bad, though.  Sore throat this morning, nose runs sometimes.  Not running any fever. Maybe I can p...

I see that it was July last year that I had a cold, or something, which didn't turn out to be COVID.   Same thing happening now, perhaps...

I saw mention of this somewhere else - perhaps on a Youtube video I never linked to? - but there's an article in Science which makes it ...

I complained a lot about the 2011 Brisbane flood investigation that gave many people the impression that the flood was solely caused by impr...

I just found the pair of reading glasses I keep at home, after misplacing them for about a month. I might write a post soon about the annoyi...

I've been meaning to post this for weeks now, but this is easily that coldest Brisbane winter that I can recall, probably for decades. A...

It's pretty remarkable, isn't it, that a mass shooting at a 4 July parade in a well off part of the US comes in at news story number...

Inspired about 6 weeks ago by a delicious Filipino style beef empanada bought at West End markets, I tried making them myself this weekend. ...

He perhaps should be spending a bit more time walking rather than sitting and chatting to his ambiguously sentient AI buddy, but nonetheless...

When I first heard about it, I thought that this project sounded fanciful, because I didn't imagine the power transmission over that lon...

Monty, Monty, Monty. I see you tried to engage dover beach with your "defending institutions" argument.    It has gotten you no wh...