Opinion Dominion

Headline in The Guardian:  ‘You unbelievable coward’: conservative US media in open warfare over Iran Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Ben Shapi...

Here's a New York Times article that didn't seem to hang around getting highlighted for long:   The Legality, or Illegality, of Kil...

It may be heavy on advertising the corporate sponsors, but still:  this is the most pleasing (and simultaneously touching) pop music video I...

These photos are from the Toyama Glass Art Museum, which is in a lovely new-ish library and gallery building and (oddly) seems to have been ...

So, Dubai has told hotels not to throw out guests who are stranded in the country: Authorities in Dubai and Abu Dhabi have directed hotels t...

Have I mentioned before watching the Youtube channel of the Australian travel vlogger who calls himself Fiasco da Gama?   Maybe, but I thoug...

For all of the stupid brinkmanship that led to War World 2 and other conflicts in the past, at least the old fashioned thing of declaring wa...

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...