Opinion Dominion

Has gay panic ruined bodybuilding? Well, Arnie's not a complete meat head, then.   But gosh he looks old and so far past his prime in t...

The Pentagon's $10-billion bet gone bad - Los Angeles Times A great, eye catching photo starts this article on the Pentagon spending b...

Back in 2011, when David Leyonhjelm was only hoping that a party name confusing to the politically naive voter and a lucky ballot paper draw...

Given that I have been ridiculing the Mars One project lately, I was amused to see in last night's Big Bang Theory that Sheldon was an a...

Full plate for Meat & Livestock Australia ‹ Japan Today: Japan News and Discussion Lots of interesting facts and figures here about th...

The BBC has quite a charming magazine article about Victorian England and its (short lived) craze for roller skating.   It let the young me...

Seeing I was complaining about un-worthy Hollywood movies, maybe I should I mention two decent ones watched over this weekend: *  Defiance...

Is 10% of the population really gay? | Society | The Guardian This seems a bit of a ramble through a complicated topic, but one novel thin...

The False Hope of a Limited Government, Built on Tax Breaks - NYTimes.com Tax and social spending issues are rather complicated, no? I'...

So, I was reading Giles Fraser's Guardian Easter column about Christianity being "a religion for losers" (you know, the first...

The "honest trailer" for Interstellar makes it look even worse than I imagined.  I guess I have to watch it some day to confirm m...

I've said it before, but again I say - what fun it sounds to be a scientist coming up with experiments about what goes on in rat minds. ...

California snowpack fades to shocking record low as water restrictions ordered - The Washington Post : The mountain snows so crucial to C...

Yesterday morning, there was talk of a (fairly small) survey showing that teenage Australians are still, in significant number, not comfort...

Adventures in Transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation - The New Yorker A pretty good summary here of the uncertain position science is at r...

*  Tony Robinson's "Walking Through History" series on SBS.  Just finished, I think.   He makes history very accessible, and i...

I understand Peter Martin's argument about stopping dividend imputation and reducing company tax, but I don't get the last bit: G...

The Last Word On Nothing | The trolley and the psychopath Here's a good post on the trolley problem and what it may, or may not, show ...

For the instructions to mix a Tom Collins, a cocktail of great simplicity, try looking somewhere other than this blog - I'm too busy wri...