Opinion Dominion

Both Andrew Bolt and Michelle Grattan write about the, ahem, unusually high profile of Quentin Bryce as Governor-General. Bolt finds her b...

The Age Blogs: Waste of Space: All Men Are Liars Why on earth does Fairfax continue to run the Sam de Brito blog when he churns out nasty p...

Rebel Catholic priest hopes for positive mediation - ABC News The more he speaks, the more he appears to be an offensive goose who should be...

Roger Cohen: One France is enough - International Herald Tribune Roger Cohen worries that America is being turned into France MkII by Obama...

Who are the addicts, the victims or their families? | Melanie Reid - Times Online This article talks about a couple of notable drug cases in...

Manne’s talking again about what bores him | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog Top marks to Andrew Bolt for this post about Robert Manne's con...

Christian Wolmar: Let's wipe out toilet paper | guardian.co.uk Much explicit talk about wiping bottoms in this Guardian column. Clearly,...

Without the will, the intervention is left without a way | The Australian Paul Toohey reckons the improvements for Northern Territory aborig...

Cash handout? Stupid, wasteful idea, Japanese say From the report: Prime Minister Taro Aso is touting a one-time cash handout of 12,000 yen ...

Look, I'll only post this if everyone promises not to make any joke-y comment about why I was reading a CSIRO journal's review of th...

Thirteen, Alfie? I’d almost given up on sex by the age of 13 | The Spectator What to make of Rod Liddle's column in the Spectator in whi...

Basics - In a Helpless Baby, the Roots of Our Social Glue - NYTimes.com A primatologist argues that: ...human babies are so outrageously dep...

Regular readers could guess how happy it would make me to see David Byrne appearing on Colbert Report. (The answer for irregular readers: ...

It's good that the use of embryos for stem cell experiments or therapy may turn out to be unnecessary, although I still suspect that mu...

Drinking wine lowers risk of Barrett's esophagus, precursor to esophageal cancer: Drinking one glass of wine a day may lower the risk of...

Many Just Say Neigh to ‘Blue Mustang’ at Denver Airport - NYTimes.com From the report: A statue of a giant male horse — electric-eyed, cobal...

I was wondering when Mark Bahnisch would make a comment on the renegade parish of St Mary's South Brisbane, given his Catholic backgroun...

While glancing through a (better than usual quality) table of half price books at a suburban bookshop yesterday, I found "Burn: the Epi...

Over at Unleashed, Alan Moran from the IPA has a reasonable article explaining some of the pros and cons of carbon tax Vs emissions trading...

This blog needs something interesting to look at again, and this is the best I can up with at the moment: a very weird looking fish with a ...