Opinion Dominion

I've been thinking about Kant again, for a few reasons: 1.      I've been reading a novel  The Thing Itself (which I only found via...

Just because I am curious about different AI capabilities, I was looking around at some of the lesser discussed ones (in the mainstream medi...

After many years of not fiddling with the blog's appearance, I have spent a few days changing the details, with questionable results. Go...

The Washington Post has an article that says there is now some debate over the basic question of whether the US economy has only grown beca...

This beautiful Zen temple is in Takaoka, about a 25 minute local train ride from Toyama.  Here are the basic details: Zuiryuji Temple (瑞龍寺, ...

For no particular reason this afternoon, I thought about the "rebel" liberal Catholic church regime at St Mary's in South Bris...

Michelle Goldberg is thinking the same things I am , about the current weird state of Washington: I never imagined I’d miss being lied to by...

I always like reading about research into really, really long term data storage methods, and have posted about it before .  It's nice...

Nagano, in and around the Zenkoji temple grounds... Some notes about Nagano:   *  It has lots and lots of foreign tourists milling around in...

In other times, wouldn't the US media be highlighting a lot more grave concern about the opaque intentions of their government?    The B...

When I look back at previous years of this blog, I'm sometimes surprised at how much I was thinking about Australian politics, especiall...

Robert Duval has died, and while I wouldn't say that his presence in a film or show would always make me want to see it, it was always c...

As I have mentioned over the years, there's a gap below a balcony at our house that possums from time to time use as a nest during the d...

We’ve all been there. You’re sitting in a theater (or on your couch), the credits roll, and you’re left wondering if you accidentally watche...

Inspired by this video by a very, very angry guy in the US who found Google dropped his company search result ranking dramatically, only to...