Opinion Dominion

I'm still pretty occupied with this and that, but a few more random observations: *  Judith Sloan looked like she ate a lemon before s...

Here's a few things that caught my eye last week, but about which I did not have time to post: *  Greg Jericho looked at what the gove...

I'll be posting more often again soon, but meanwhile, Paul Krugman's review of the important Piketty book is here and is a good, nu...

My Mum passed away peacefully in her sleep on Saturday night, aged 90.   As I explained in a previous post, she was mentally sharp until she...

A very mealy-mouthed effort in the Schumpeter blog at The Economist to excuse the scandalous bullying of Eich to leave Mozilla, I think.   ...

Quite a fascinating profile of political uber operative Peta Credlin in the Fairfax press today. A few impressions: *  the way she inte...

Got to do something about that heading.  Am working on it...

There is something especially eye-catching and exhilarating about this picture I just saw on The Independent, even if I have no great desire...

It seems to me that Andrew Sullivan gets paid less attention now than he used to, but a comment at Slate about the Mozilla "you must su...

From the Jakarta Post photo caption, a description of an odd festival: Kiss me, if you can: A Balinese girl (right) tries to avoid a kiss...

Brendan O'Neill, playing up to his annoying role of blowhard contrarian with political and philosophical views seemingly picked up at ra...

I just posted about circumcision, then philosophy, so it seems apt that we now move on to philosopher's underpants. I was unaware unti...

From Philosophy Now : Kremlinologists were granted a glimpse into Vlad ‘The Inscrutable’ Putin’s ideological motivations, when the Washing...

Gawd, this will send some anti-circ nutters into a frenzy of attempted rebuttal: A paper in Mayo Clinic Proceedings finds that the benef...

As far as I can make out, this would represent a common sense approach to future taxation and spending by the Australian government: *  br...

BBC News - Hong Kong's fish farms in the sky Interesting.  That's all.

John Cassidy writing in the New Yorker says the Republicans are stuck on stupid.  (Well, OK, that's my phrasing, not his, but close to ...

Too much running tied to shorter lifespan, studies find

A new terrorism law in Saudi Arabia targets atheists and dissent of all types. Be warned Jason Soon, if your aircraft ever has to divert i...

In the debate about free speech and s18C Racial Discrimination Act, Jason Soon links to a pretty good article about the American attitude to...