Opinion Dominion

Life is too short to spend too much time exploring the truly weird and wacky corners of the Web, but sometimes a site gets brought to one...

World news from The Times and the Sunday Times - Times Online The link is to a story of a "walking", semi-human statue of Mary in...

Also from New Scientist , just what we need, more science on dating stategies: "Men who spend big money wining and dining their dates a...

This is the sort of story (from New Scientist) that Tim Blair loves to have fun with: " Planting trees can create deserts, lower water ...

News about Attrition at StrategyPage.com's How to Make War. The above link is to an interesting article (on a web site that may or may n...

A quick round up from this morning's browse of the web: Daniel Pipes and Janet Albrechtsen in the Australia : both good reads. The Eco...

Aimless web surfing while I should be working has led me this morning to this site , which is quite amusing. (It's copies of email corr...

Goodness, what odd things can happen in this world of blogging. Alan Brain (see left) kindly recommended this site in a post a few weeks ag...

Christopher Pearson's article in the Weekend Australia about the late Ronald Wilson was a sizzling read, and I expect a strong counter ...

I am sure Currency Lad could do a better job on this, but I can't let today's peculiar opinion piece by Michael Read in The Age go ...

A matter of respect - Opinion - theage.com.au An opinion piece in the Age today (above) rushes to the defence of mulitculturalism. The argum...

Sitting ducks - Tips - Travel - theage.com.au I missed this article from earlier this week about the erosion of airline seat space, especial...

Efficacy of antidepressants in adults -- Moncrieff and Kirsch 331 (7509): 155 -- BMJ Wow, this story in the British Medical Journal will cau...

The DIA and CIA Go MIA This story is about the issue I raised previously , namely the disconcerting way the main stream media is, by and lar...

The Jakarta Post - After the bombs, London searching for the root cause of terrorism Contrary to the headline, the above article contains no...

Rove Rage - The poverty of our current scandal. By Christopher Hitchens The link is to the ever readable Hitchens on the Rove/Wilson stuff. ...

From the same website that I linked to in my last post, which from a quick look seems generally to be a relatively moderate Islamic site, no...

I am not really mocking Islam by linking to this detailed explanation of Islamic views on toilet paper. I was just genuinely curious about...

TIME.com: When Denial Can Kill -- Jul. 25, 2005 The link is to a good essay from this week's Time magazine, about how Islamic leaders sh...

U.S. forces behind deadly children bomb: Iraqi experts - See the above link for stupid propaganda that Arab media is still prepared to promo...