Opinion Dominion

According to the media , quite a few people are saying that they have received multiple same sex survey forms from ABS, because of previous ...

Yes, we've all heard elements of this story before - drag queen balls in New York, gay nightclubs in Berlin and Paris - in the 1920'...

Interesting article at Business Insider: The most respected medical journal in the US just eviscerated a drug that's cost taxpayers ov...

This same sex marriage issue, it continues to have the perverse effect of making me dislike everyone.  The latest: *  I was calling the ke...

From The Japan Times, an article headed Nagoya: The most boring city in Japan sounds a bit harsh.  I'm not sure the writer has ever bee...

The fact that Steve Kates (and Sinclair Davidson) work at RMIT makes me deeply suspicious about the entire staff at that institution, but th...

Finally, we're starting to get more photos of damage to the Florida Keys area .  Seems to have taken a while.

I haven't watched the Bannon 60 Minutes interview, but I reckon Slate's William Saletan has got his measure: Bannon fancies himsel...

So, science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle died a few days ago.    By way of The Mote in God's Eye , which (unusually) my mother bough...

An article  at The Atlantic here , explaining the economic ties between Russia and North Korea, and Putin's reason why he's soft on ...

In Japan, you can now get Coca-Cola pre-mixed with coffee

From Axios: JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon slammed bitcoin Tuesday, calling the digital currency "a fraud," per CNBC. He said it'...

Is it just me, or has it seemed to everyone else too that video or photos of damage to the Florida Keys, which is reported in words to be pr...

Well, I've been saying since at least 2014 that surely the opioid (and related heroin) problem in the US is an indication that the libe...

I must admit, I hadn't thought of this aspect of driverless cars before (I had only thought of the icky problem of people having sex in...

Not sure that too much should be made of this (the number of vegetarians involved seems not very high to me), but still : Vegetarians are ...

There's a good essay at the New York Times:  Why George Bernard Shaw had a crush on Stalin. Here's a part: In part, too, Sha...

There's been this odd libertarian optimist take on the recent American hurricanes along the lines of "look at how well America will...

I don't look at Boing Boing very often anymore, and I was rather surprised to find this heading for a post there over the weekend : Au...

At the TLS, a look at superhero films and why they are looking more homogenised.  I sometimes feel guilty for dissing Marvel, when I can g...