Opinion Dominion

I've been meaning to opine on this all summer - and last summer too, when I think he also had the job. Hamish Macdonald, the young-ish...

As spotted in Sydney,  last year.   Don't think I ever posted about that weekend trip..

This summer's possum lodger is a very laid back customer.   Last year's would hiss and resent offers of fruit; this one takes it g...

I didn't intend a blogging halt lasting this long, but I've just been exceptionally busy at work, and to a degree, at home.   And wh...

I'll be posting again soon,  but for now:

Japan takes trying to intervene in suicide talk online pretty seriously: In the wake of the recent high-profile killings and dismembermen...

I see that Last Jedi criticism seems to be coming disproportionately from Right wing sites - even Ross Douthat is having a go at it!   Is t...

Poor old CL:   he used to write well crafted conservative commentary at his blogs (since deleted).   Then he started living only in Catallax...

MANILA – Firebrand President Rodrigo Duterte has said he wants same-sex marriage legalized in the Philippines, a move that would bring hi...

Truck dispute, handgun: throw in an unwanted pregnancy and you'd have the perfect cliche for a high profile redneck fight: The elder s...

So many people have already seen The Last Jedi that lots of websites are opening up spoiler discussion threads.   And I see there are some a...

That's from the Washington Post, by the way.

And you thought people getting gastric band operations was a pretty extreme way to fight obesity : Picture this: While reaching for the c...

On the weekend, when I posted about the Pentagon UFO research story, I should have linked to this associated report at the New York Times i...

Cadavers in the ballroom That's a headline you don't see every day. It's at Reuters, and it is a rather surprising story: ...

From an Australian perspective, this is a very odd headline and story at Gulf News: Hailstorm thrills children in Dubai Students of GEMS...

Ross Douthat really tries too hard sometimes to find something like what he thinks is "balance" - such as today's column sayi...