Opinion Dominion

An interesting article from the Japan Times about Japan and overfishing. It starts off talking about a famous TV fish expert: In September...

I reckon the thing annoying Kim Beazley most about the leadership challenge would be that did all that dieting and workouts in the gym for ...

It's a match made in heaven, lefty teachers and The Age. Big union rallies are being held today, to what end I don't know. It'...

I still don't get why Tim Dunlop, now blogging courtesy of News Limited , is not attracting much negative attention from the Right. JF B...

From Hitchen's latest column in Slate comes this key paragraph: The objectionable thing about the proposed Baker-Hamilton "talks&q...

A long article in The Independent (found via Pajamas Media) talks about the current decline of Hollywood. There is nothing to disagree wit...

This article about how medical research may be getting eggs for use in stem cell research is interesting. It would seem that supporters of...

This must be "male contraception week" in the British media. Following my recent post on vasectomy, T he Guardian discusses s ome...

The Guardian has a fairly long article about the continuing plight of women in Afghanistan. Although it opens as if its sole point is to c...

Apropos of nothing, I just stumbled across a (literally) "high concept" business on the Internet: A unique event meant for anyon...

For those male readers contemplating having a vasectomy, The Times has an article on the uncomfortable issue of long lasting pain. The sol...

I spotted this particularly attractive butterfly in the yard today and took this pic. (The butterfly itself is exactly how the camera caugh...

Alan Ramsay in the SMH today: Our Prime Minister lately is behaving and sounding very much like the Paul Keating of old in the ebullience o...

From the International Herald Tribune : Last week, Kofi Annan gave the Middle East a history assignment. Speaking in Istanbul, the UN secret...

Richard Dawkins 's book "The God Delusion" and his vigorous campaign to get other atheistic scientists to actively repudiate a...

If the figures in this article in the Guardian are correct, it really does make all the European panic about flying and greenhouse gases so...

From the PM's commission's report on the feasibility of nuclear power in Australia: Compared with other non-combustion technologies...

If these Imams had read my earlier post here , they would know that demonstrative praying on airplanes is just not a way to make your fell...

Hitchen's latest article in Slate hits out at the rise of James Baker and "realism" as the possible solution to the Iraq prob...

Just an interesting short article in New Scientist : Alzheimer's disease has a range of disparate risk factors, but researchers may now ...