Opinion Dominion

An opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning has author Mark Mordue (who feels sorry for John Brogden) concluding as follows:...

Most people have probably heard that deliberately underfeeding mice and other animals can have a dramatic effect on increasing their life sp...

Great committee names come of looney socialist totalitarianism and its supporters. This from the North Korea news service : "Marwan Su...

Janet Albrechtsen in the Australian today is spot on in her comments on the John Brogden incident. Of course, it is fair enough for Janet t...

Woman Helps Ill Duck, but State Seizes It I missed the above duck story with a happy ending (more or less) that started a couple of weeks a...

news @ nature.com�-�Surging hormones blamed for pain�-�Study of sex-change patients reveals role of oestrogen. The link above is to a st...

Everyone who reads around right wing blogs would know by now of Christopher Hitchens good Weekly Standard article on the Iraq war. Maybe som...

Report Finds Fetuses Feel Pain Later Than Thought - New York Times The doctors who wrote this report deserve some stick, I think. I would ha...

Forgive a bit of self indulgence, but I am feeling worse about blogging since I put on the new site meter and realised how many "hits...

Research On Bicycle Saddles And Sexual Health Comes Of Age See above link for recent article about cycling induced erectile dysfunction....

I posted twice recently on the unhappy and deplorable state of remote aboriginal communities in Australia. Mark Steyn has here a bit abou...

According to this story , big green iguanas are no longer considered a novelty by folks in Florida. In Brisbane, gray lizards known as wate...

Today in The Age, staff writer Martin Flanagan writes the type of column I am thoroughly sick of reading over the last decade - a stupid wh...

Amazon.com: Books: After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory Just in case I have readers who think I post too often about space stuff, I will di...

I found a good detailed article on possible methods for shielding spacecraft from cosmic radiation. Unfortunately, there is no clear practi...

With his government's stunning incompetence in handling its public health system crisis being exemplified by stories like this one (in t...

news @ nature.com�-�An outfit suitable for Mars�-�Slimmer space suits on the rack for astronauts. Readers with a science/ science fictio...

This opinion piece in the Australian today finally says out loud something so politically incorrect that even the Federal Libs wouldn't...

Ann Coulter, who I don't read regularly but probably should, takes her own swipe at Cindy Sheehan, as well as the Maureen Dowd column w...

The New Yorker: The Critics: Books The link is to an excellent book review/essay in the New Yorker on the history and current status of ...