Opinion Dominion

At least Fairfax is making an effort to deal with an important election issue. All the dirt on carbon is a pretty good explanation of the...

The very individual journey of novelists There's a nice, brief story here about the ways different authors work.  I hadn't read be...

Ben Eltham's summary of the last week in politics seemed pretty accurate to me. Insiders yesterday was great - George Megalogenis and D...

My mother turns 90 tomorrow, and a pleasant family gathering happened today at the aged care facility where she now lives. Her health held...

I have read about Live by The Sword somewhere before, but don't think I've mentioned it here. From its review in Literary Review ...

New film: "Planes": Crash landing | The Economist Sure, it's in the Prospero blog at the Economist, so it's not in the m...

Denser, Faster Memory Challenges Both DRAM and Flash | MIT Technology Review Given that I get along well with tablets that have only 16G m...

Ken Parish is a great writer at Club Troppo, who unfortunately does not post often enough. But here he is, doing a thorough take down of ...

You know what I think is sorely needed in the Labor campaign? A speech the equivalent of the Bill Clinton one in the Obama campaign, which...

The Wind Rises English trailer: The new Miyazaki movie looks haunting. Ooh.  Slate brings us news of a new Miyazaki film, which is proving...

No one can make Tony Abbott's climate plan add up, so he should do the maths | World news | theguardian.com Lenore Taylor makes some p...

Poor John Quiggin .  He runs a civilised blog; his economics seem to me to be about 300% more reliable than  the guff that comes out of Cata...

BBC News - Mouth bacteria may trigger bowel cancer Researchers say they have uncovered how bacteria may set off a chain reaction leading t...

Kevin Rudd rules out new coalition deal to form government | World news | theguardian.com As I criticised Tony Abbott for a premature ruli...

As mentioned a couple of posts back, I was delighted (much more so than my wife, children, or any other person in the vicinity, it seemed) t...

Last night while composing my account of Sunday's expedition, the ABC's Q&A show was on in the background. Someone should make...

Look, there was no "House of Pork" to be spotted yesterday at the RNA show, but it was replaced by something much more significan...

I didn't see the political debate last night:  I was watching a jetpack rocketman doing a 10 second spin around the Brisbane showgrounds...

My last post came from The Atlantic, which has a couple of other interesting articles up: *  one showing a few cards from the time of the ...