Opinion Dominion

The BBC notes: China will become the snooker superpower within the next decade, according to the sport's supremo Barry Hearn. Worl...

Now, one has to admit that if Hillary were president, she would have authorised a similar attack on Syria (she said so herself.)  And severa...

Vox notes: Some of Trump’s biggest supporters are furious about his strikes in Syria

An entertaining and educational article at NPR about instant coffee, and how important it was in World War 1 (and 2). Included is this de...

Gee, the NYT is getting very disrepectful in the way it talks about the President: The Mucus-Shooting Worm-Snail That Turned Up in the Fl...

One of favourite climate blogs talks about a new paper with some startling implications: Future climate forcing potentially without prece...

From Axios this morning: On what Trump will consider: Defense Secretary James Mattis will present President T...

Heh: A picture depicting Vladimir Putin in full makeup has been banned in Russia. The picture is cited on the Russian justice ministry...

Last night I stumbled across a Channel 4 documentary from 2014 called America's Fugitive Family, and if you want to learn about a bizarr...

Richard Cooke is getting much Twitter love for an article in The Monthly noting the state of the Right in Australia.  Right wing magazines,...

Time has a good article about why America (read:  Trump) just can't go it alone on North Korea.  This has all been known for a long tim...

I see via Jason Soon that Nassim Taleb is taking the "idiot journalists may well be being conned by anti-Assad propaganda" line re...

Jonah Goldberg in National Review: ...my National Review colleague (well, boss) Rich Lowry penned a widely discussed piece for Politic...

I've said it before - Trump talking off the cuff doesn't even reach the eloquence of a smart primary school student: TRUMP: It cro...

Tonight, after a visit to the dog salon:

I caught most of the much hyped (on the ABC) show Stargazing Live last night, and found it all a bit odd. I liked that it was Siding Sprin...

The American Right has become ridiculously easily distracted.   I mean, you see it in everything from obsession about a throwaway line like ...

At home, last night:

Accidents that kill families happen every day, but the way some happen, they really make it terrible to imagine the heartbreak:  Police reco...

I see you've been trying to engage with Catallaxians re the Trump/Russia matter. I know I've said it before, but I just like repea...