Opinion Dominion

I need to stop posting for a while. Work is busy, some stuff will be happening at home, and I need to know that that I can exercise self co...

I should really stop watching the services from "St Mary's in exile", but they hold a sort of morbid fascination for seeing ho...

Forecasts of 'barbecue summer' for UK come with health warning | UK news | The Observer According to the Observer: Temperatures coul...

This is pretty funny. As I noted earlier this week , Tim of Will Type for Food fame did not like Samson and Delilah, a new Australian film...

Dubai dream jobs turn to nightmares | Business | News.com.au Just work there.

The bit about shared allergies really made me laugh:

While looking around for any blogs commenting about Peter Kennedy and this week's Australian Story, I found a Melbourne blogger who has...

Arctic thaw could prompt huge release of carbon dioxide : Nature News It's all about what happens when permafrost stops being being perm...

Rate of Iceland Sea acidification from time series measurements I haven't read any commentary on this bit of research into the measured ...

Clive Palmer announces Galilee Basin coal mine funding | The Courier-Mail I'm sure I heard the Queensland Treasurer praising this new ma...

Oxford don Mary Beard writes of her "great lecturing disasters", although they really don't seem so spectacular to me. Of mor...

Guantanamo is not the hell-hole we imagine | Tim Reid - Times Online A pretty interesting article here on Guantanamo by a guy who's seen...

It was noted at this very same vastly under-read blog you are now reading about 2 years ago , but Obama's "climate guru" Steve...

CFCL_BlueGen_Launch_ Some time ago I had some posts about domestic fuel cells in Japan, which use natural gas. (I might even have mentioned...

Jesus has doubts about his relationship with Madonna

And by "best possible response," I still mean a less-than-stellar response | Daniel W. Drezner Try this article from Foreign Poli...

Canadian governor asks for tasty treat – raw seal heart The Queen's representative in north America was visiting an Inuit community in N...

Humans, the Cooking Apes - Review - NYTimes.com “Catching Fire” is a plain-spoken and thoroughly gripping scientific essay that presents not...

Report: Dubai Leads World in Price Declines - NYTimes.com Dubai prices have dropped 32 percent in the last year and 40 percent in the last q...

Brooke Shields Regrets Not Losing Virginity Sooner - Brooke Shields : People.com Oh yes, this is just the message young women need to hear: ...