Opinion Dominion

I can't say that I have noticed one potential issue about driverless cars being discussed - how will they stop users doing unsavoury thi...

Good to hear that even Abbott Ministers are now talking about their inglorious leader getting the boot.  Andrew Bolt doesn't seem to...

Delaying Age Related Diseases by Keeping Gut Bacteria in Balance | Neuroscience News Interesting research here, showing that fiddling with...

Why David Frum Is Wrong About Stephen Harper and Canada's Conservative Party - The Atlantic The tactics of Stephen Harper are not ident...

Explaining the Abbott pathology, one of his senior colleagues said it is rooted in a biblical belief of good and evil, hence his frustrati...

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show – both a beginning and the end? | Daily Review: film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more Gee.  Guy Ru...

I see that, apparently, David Leyonhjelm's look-at-me "Nanny State" enquiry  has received most of its submissions on bicycle ...

OK, it's not (quite) the same level of disaster as the US political situation, but it appears that there are many unhappy campers in the...

Oh look, George Will not only disses Trump, but finds big hypocrisy in the GOP on the matter of gay marriage and the law: Some, who loudly...

US politicians face sack for gay sex ruse - BBC News Tea party Republicans Todd Courser and Cindy Gamrat concocted a false story that Mr ...

The remarkable sight of the Japanese floods on television last night was "old news" by this morning, but yet again, I make the po...

Interesting short history here about how Americans used to be enthusiastic about taxes (in the form of tariffs).

Ocean life triggers ice formation in clouds This would suggest to me further reason to worry about the unknown, global effects of ocean aci...

Here's part of the latest close up of the bright spot on Ceres: Sure, the centre bit is now looking like an ice volcano, if you as...

Online security braces for quantum revolution : Nature News & Comment What a cool word - "cryptosystems" - which gets used r...

Well, I'm pleasantly surprised to note that Stephen Colbert's much anticipated Late Show is going to be shown in Australia at 11.30p...

Following today's bipartisan statement on Australia taking 12,000 Syrian refugees, a comment appeared in Catallaxy: Now I can not on...

The TLS blog: The death of Louis XIV I recently posted about Louis and invention of modern fashion, and now have spotted a post at TLS tha...

I've complained for years that praise for the Portuguese drugs policy has always seemed simplistic and overblown, especially when coming...

Tonight's Foreign Correspondent was Tashi and the Monk, and it was extraordinarily good. Touching, humane and beautiful in all senses...