Opinion Dominion
Founded in 2005: interested in lots of stuff.
Monday, April 16, 2018
Right wing cranks are cranky
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Well, as if you didn't know they live in their own little, intensely unhappy, bubble world, I've just noticed that many of the self ...
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A post is coming
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I haven't posted anything specifically about climate change news for some time. I have been saving some links and intend to make a cli...
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Funniest Commonwealth Games Closing ceremoney tweet
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It was, I suppose, kind of refreshing to have Channel 7 hosts bag their own broadcast as soon it finished. I guess seeing they were standin...
Sunday, April 15, 2018
That sinking Roman feeling
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An article at The Guardian talks about the increasing number of disastrous sinkholes appearing in Rome - associated, it seems, with increas...
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Seems just a little overstated, and I get back to normal about sport
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According to News Corp, Australia's netball team losing to England means this: As the Commonwealth Games near an end, may I also r...
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Recipe reminder - pumpkin soup
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Yesterday we ate at a Yum Cha restaurant in a (I think) Vietnamese run restaurant. It was very nice (although I have had better chicken fee...
Zero Dark Thirty: another in the series of "Late Movie Reviews"
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Watched Zero Dark Thirty , the Kathryn Bigelow directed movie about the hunting down of Osama Bin Laden, last night. This discussion may co...
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Off-putting
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So, I'm in the somewhat painful process of trying to work out a holiday, and found this photo, from a Mercure Hotel room... ...and I...
Friday, April 13, 2018
What's happening to me?
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The issue: the Commonwealth Games is making me feel all warm and gooey towards sports. This is very much out of character. I guess I fe...
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Calm and angry comments about Chris Berg
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Oh dear. I was criticising Chris Berg earlier this week for writing vapid papers on blockchain, now he's contributing a vapid, self ser...
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Thursday, April 12, 2018
Outrageous lying politician poisoning politics in his country
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Newt Gingrich on Fox and Friends, about the Cohen FBI raids: We're supposed to have the rule of law. It ain't the rule of law whe...
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To anyone who thinks Trump's tough guy tweets indicate there's no shady connection with Russia...
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...I make the following comments: * we all know he's an empty shell with no consistent principles, able to be influenced by the last ...
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Conversion for politics
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Interesting article up at The Atlantic: Converting to Buddhism as a Form of Political Protest Low-caste Indians are leaving Hinduism en...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Sounds a lot
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China and clean air don't exactly go hand in hand, and it's reflected in lung health : Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD...
Yes, exactly
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Just noticed this on Twitter (the bit in red is the main part, but the tweet above that is relevant too):
John Gray on "hyper-liberalism"
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There's much of interest in John Gray's piece at TLS on what he calls hyper-liberalism. Just one part, which I will extract here,...
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A modest proposal
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So, maybe the Chinese want a military base on Vanuatu? Well, instead of complaining about it , we've got lots of Northern land not bei...
Time to address universal basic income
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Readers may, or may not, have noticed that despite it having an increasing amount of publicity in the last year or two, I've never menti...
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Quiggin on free market economists
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I liked John Quiggin's latest post about the free market economists in the US who have capitulated to Trumpism. His final paragraph: ...
Smoking vomit
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I see the NYT has a story about an increase in a painful vomiting syndrome caused by heavy cannabis use: “After marijuana was legalized...
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