Opinion Dominion

Well, it's a public holiday in Brisbane, as they wanted world leaders to see Brisbane city as some sort of ghost town, I presume.   I ha...

I recently suggested that Pope Francis, if driven out of Rome as an Antipope , should take his seat of power down to Copacabana.   (An aging...

Niki Savva,  one of the slightly less annoying conservative commentators, heaps praise on Andrew Robb in The Australian today.    In real l...

I can sort of see some the reasoning behind the world revolutionary zeal behind anarchism when it started a couple of centuries ago - I mea...

'Smart' drugs won't make smart people smarter Apparently, there's a drug around called Modafinil ( used for promoting wake...

It's an interesting story, this one about the Mormon leaders coming clean about Joseph Smith having up to 40 wives.   Still, he only di...

OK, I know it must be hard to have someone talking to camera for the whole 6 or 7 hours or something that it going to take the Rosetta lande...

I like the opening description of The Australian in Bernard Keane's column today: The Australian’s  smear campaign against the Prime...

An astonishing graph at The Economist, in an important article about a new study suggesting Piketty was certainly right about the US, at le...

Well, I used to assume on appearance alone that Julie Novak of the IPA was a lesbian (come on, I surely wasn't alone); and maybe she is,...

Gee, I bet Abbott regrets the "shirtfront" line, given the way it has absolutely dominated everything in the media about the meeti...

Look, Matt Damon seems a nice enough guy on TV chat shows and what not, but I can't say that I have ever been completely convinced that ...

I saw this on Rage on the weekend, and immediately liked its cute, quirky but slightly creepy vibe.  It's been around since 2009, I see:...

An aging scientist makes what I think a very unlikely prediction: SEX will be entirely recreational by 2050, with all reproduction achiev...

For a Lasting Marriage, Marry Someone Your Own Age - The Atlantic

Cuts to jobless benefits will boost economic growth, Australia tells G20 : The Australian government has cited controversial cuts to unempl...

Wayne Goss, former Queensland premier, dies at 63 | Australia news | theguardian.com I think Wayne Goss is widely regarded as an unworthy v...

I'm never sure lately if some tweets by Jason Soon are out to deliberately goad me, even though I trust he knows that some of my posts a...

I like watching Kitchen Cabinet for the opportunity it gives to view politicians in what is meant to be a more relaxed atmosphere, talking t...

I meant to link last week to a good explanation at The Conversation about the problem with old Australian temperature records from before 1...