Opinion Dominion

FuturePundit: Ice Core Climate Record Extended To 650,000 Years Futurepundit (link above) has a not bad post on the meaning of the recen...

7.30 Report - 28/11/2005: A miracle needed to save Nguyen Just to put the (terribly sad) Nguyen case into perspective from the Singaporean p...

Arab world, Iraq and al-Qaeda | Unfamiliar questions in the Arab air | Economist.com The Economist is vaguely optimisitic that the whole...

Panic Is Not the Solution - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com See the link above to a sensible opinion piece in Newsweek (obv...

As promised, here's a photo from my holiday of something other than flowers. I don't know exactly what it is, but assume it is a ki...

Mark's column last week in The Australian was his usual entertaining and good read. This paragraph (on the current kerfuffle in Americ...

Here's a few science news items of interest: * Is string theory all that it's cracked up to be? A Slate review of a new book by L...

Staying in a new place with a couple of little kids (with their tendency to wake up a bit more often in a strange place) and fairly noisy ai...

Off for a week. Probably no posting in that time. I'll try to post pics of something other than flowers when I get back!

The New Yorker: The Critics: A Critic At Large It's been a few weeks since I have recommended a New Yorker book review, but the link...

Feeling cold linked to developing a cold. 14/11/2005. ABC News Online I made a comment in an earlier recent post how common sense someti...

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Over at Margo Kingston's site, Tony Kevin remains a frequent contributor, and he's been going on for some time now about the "...

FrontPage magazine.com :: Where the WMDs Went by Jamie Glazov See the link for an interesting interview with someone with direct experie...

Seasonal depression may affect hamsters My questions: 1. how do you tell that hamster is depressed? 2. Why does it matter? (Yeah, ...

Bronwyn Winter argues the Australian press has used the French crisis to push a little local propaganda. - On Line Opinion - 11/11/2005 See ...

Although it seems to have attracted little media attention in Australia, The Guardian has been extracting bits of a book by former British A...

The Old Bailey, of course, the criminal court in London that has been around for centuries. You can now visit their site to search the compl...

Gerard Henderson's column today on the French and their riots is interesting. The key argument: "France practises integration wit...

Shame, Whitlam, shame - Tony Parkinson - Opinion - theage.com.au See the link for a Tony Parkinson story on how Whitlam sought substanti...