Opinion Dominion

Found it at Business Insider , which notes: The divorce rate is still high in the U.S. at 53%. But Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg, the Cze...

A good commentary piece, I think, on Piketty is here in The Guardian .

Mob kills man for 'stealing genitals' in Burkina Faso | The FRANCE 24 Observers I had assumed that "penis stealing" was ...

Even in a State With Restrictive Laws, Gunman Amassed Weapons and Ammunition - NYTimes.com Mass murderer  Elliott Rodger was able to acqui...

Whale defecation good fertiliser for fisheries

Frances Abbott Chosen ‘On Merit’ To Help Lobby Fed Govt Regulators | newmatilda.com OK, so Frances may have given the same gushing review ...

 If I have understood Henry Ergas in the Australian correctly this morning, the fact that the Abbott government's co-payment does not go...

The fear of many Right wing, libertarian inclined economists and commentators that Piketty is right about how capitalism and the rise of ine...

David Marr on the budget of a hidden man | The Saturday Paper David Marr can be annoying, but his general take on Tony Abbott as summed up...

Over the past couple of months, there seem to have been a multitude of cooking shows about Paris or France, and I'm getting sick of it b...

I was very taken with this photo of Alesund, Norway, which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald last week in a travel story about the incre...

Witch doctors arrested after albino woman murdered 'for potions' in Tanzania - Africa - World - The Independent Police in the Simi...

Some terrific journalism being done by New Matilda that shows exactly why Abbott should have disclosed the "scholarship" that his...

Gee, when I recently complained the lack of promising (US) summer films this years, I had forgotten about the new Tom Cruise science fiction...

I can't see it ever becoming popular, but it's interesting to read of this woman's account of her month long experiment of just...

Is it just me, or a sign of old age, that I really, really care not a hoot how good an X Men movie is reviewed - I still won't be seeing...

Coalition gets a brutal lesson in policy on the run Interesting to note a few things from Laura Tingle's article: Who is responsible...

Graham Richardson  this morning in the Oz: I should also make it clear that I am appalled that the media in this country should give publ...

Yet another case of bacteria turning up somewhere rather unexpected in the body: The placenta, long thought to be sterile, is home to a ba...