Opinion Dominion

ABC TV: Captain Cook I kept forgetting it was on, but from what I did see, the 4 part documentary about Cook which recently ran on ABC was v...

Lateline - ABC Peter Costello gave a fine performance on Lateline tonight. The transcript is not up yet, but you can watch the video alread...

Before I get to the main point, while I type this I can see Shirley Bassey on TV performing at the 2005 Royal Variety concert from England. ...

The party's over and Liberals will soon be history - Opinion - smh.com.au Steve Biddulph is a psychologist best known for his books on r...

Our Enemy Hands - New York Times

Older white women join Kenya's sex tourists | U.S. | Reuters Clearly, it's a day for distasteful sex stories: The white beaches of t...

...then bring out this game at the office Christmas party for the boys and girls in Administration to play: Keep your pants on It's from...

Catherine Deveny connects election wins, Kevin Rudd and sex in a way that is just creepy, even if she is trying to be funny. And was Kevin t...

This is bothering me. I know that I was somewhere in the last 5 years or so where I found on a shelf an old book which was a memoir written ...

Mitt Romney needs to answer questions about his Mormon faith. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine Of course, don't expect Hitchen...

I meant to link to a New York Times article earlier this month which discussed the question of whether famous (and aging) atheist philosophy...

Earth keeps Moonwalkers from harm - space - 25 November 2007 - New Scientist Space Oh good. The Heinlein-ian idea of boy scouts going hikin...

My first priority: Rudd - National - smh.com.au Kevin Rudd turned up at a school again today, to say nothing special except that he really w...

Have you all missed my posts on strange/weird science? (Presses ear against monitor but hears nothing.) Thought so! Anyhow, Mild Colonial ...

I have already made the point over at Caz's blog, but I reckon the best Coalition leadership team would be Turnbull and Julie Bishop. (...

Gillard main.jpg (JPEG Image, 300x383 pixels) Ever since making an off the cuff comment on Saturday night that Julia Gillard seems to have...

Guardian Unlimited | Comment is free | A decade of John Howard has left a country of timidity, fear and shame Richard Flanagan puts his typi...

The New York Times has run a couple of articles indicating that some countries well advanced in the development of wind power are starting...

Matt Price has died , aged 46. Very, very sad news. UPDATE : more detail and recollections of friends and colleagues this morning. I not...