Opinion Dominion

Something else happened on the weekend - after hearing someone singing it live, I realised that I had misheard the chorus and title of a rat...

It occurred to me over the weekend:   don't zombie cultist Trump worshippers, like Steve Kates, find that their simultaneous beliefs tha...

I suppose that, as the world ends, at least we'll be laughing grimly about how it happened... Update:   so sue me, I hadn't bee...

Another day, another Tim Blair whine about the ABC operating on government money. Look, there is at least one Party with pretensions to po...

News this morning that, as usual, One Nation (seems the party motto should be:  "You don't have to be nuts to run for us; but if yo...

Good and not so good news from the weekend: *   we've had an Emile Henry ceramic tagine - one of these - for a couple of years, a...

Well, it really is a bit of a depressing time to be a research physicist, it seems.  From Nature News : Physicists are growing ever more...

No pun intended in that post heading:  it really is surprising, isn't it?, this outpouring of people prepared to speak out now about the...

I see that Steve Kates says he gave a "presentation" on the first anniversary of Trump's election.    Not sure where, but I pr...

I see that via Hot Air that there was much right wing mocking of USA Today putting up an infographic about the AR15 showing that, amongst o...

I think this is a scene from Helen Dale's Kingdom of the Wicked : [Actually, I saw that movie, with my father, surprisingly, at the...

Robert J Samuelson in the Washington Post : The truth is that we can’t afford any tax reduction. We need higher, not lower, taxes. What w...

Seems to me there are too many words without enough graphic relief here lately. So here, found via Reddit's Earth Porn thread, an unus...

This thing about assault weapon bans in the US:   regardless of how functionally it may be difficult to define an assault weapon, I reckon i...

 I have been trying to follow the success or otherwise of Helen Dale's recently published alternative history (Jesus as terrorist in tec...

Yeah, so Trump (and a bunch of Republicans) want to talk about mental health being the problem, not the country being full of semi automatic...

You know how awesome I think smartphones are?   No?, well, they are incredible pieces of technology and everyone should say that aloud to th...

Oh - Backreaction has a post up about Popper and particle physics and how it's all gone wrong. Good read, even if she has an unreason...

*  I'm pretty busy this week, but I get the impression from Twitter and scanning the press that the Texas church shooting is not causing...

*   Who invented crispbread, and it is old or new?   This crossed my mind as I enjoyed some from Germany on the weekend.   Wikipedia indicat...