Opinion Dominion

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Wednesday, May 09, 2018

California and big government

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Why don't "small government/low taxes always is best" advocates address the matter of how California now has the world's 5...
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Out of Iran

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Vox went and found one not entirely nutty expert who supports the Trump pull out of the Iran deal, but I have to say, I don't find his ...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2018

What a suck up

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A secular hymn

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So, I'm slowly catching up with what the young'uns have long known about technology and music by paying for a family subscription to...
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Fantasy budget time again

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David Leyonhjelm likes to do a fantasy libertarian budget every year, although it's hard to see why he bothers, since the details need ...
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A good idea, I think

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It was only back in October last year that I wondered why it didn't make sense for governments (at least in sunny states, like Queensla...
Monday, May 07, 2018

Time for more climate change whiplash

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This article in Nature News:  Can the world kick its fossil fuel addiction fast enough is another in the long line of "climate change w...
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Sunday, May 06, 2018

Oh look, another libertarian do-nothing

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For reasons unimportant to this post, I was searching through this blog for past entries about Helen Dale, and was reminded that she had wri...
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Saturday, May 05, 2018

Intense rain, climate change, again..

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It's long been a theme here that new records for intensity of rainfall and resultant flooding, due to even the relatively modest increas...

A cluster of a rare, unpleasant disease

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Ocular melanoma?  Hadn't even heard of it, and for some unfortunate people from a town in the USA, there's a cluster of it for compl...
Friday, May 04, 2018

Pascoe has a point

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See his tweet here , about how way low company tax in the UK is not helping their economic growth much.  Read the thread too.   Perhaps I li...
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Everyone's an expert

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Hey, I see via an extract at Catallaxy that Henry Ergas is critical of the Gonski 2 report on education, and this is what he thinks: No on...

The Russians prey on the paranoid streak in the US right

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The Guardian reports : Speculation about a US armed forces exercise that led some Texans to fear that the Obama administration was plotti...
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Meet the future incels

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A distinct lack of female faces amongst this group of American high school students having a counter protest to the March for our Lives ...
Thursday, May 03, 2018

Hitler's bones

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Slate talks at length about a new book published in France, in which the authors explain that a re-examination of a bit of jaw held by the ...

Malthus, Thanos and workhouses

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Given that the Avengers movie (not very wisely, in my opinion) gives the villain-in-chief Malthusian/environmental motives for laying waste ...

An over-egged argument with an element of truth?

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He does go on at unnecessary length, but I could see his point, at least in parts: Peak superhero? Not even close: How one movie genre bec...

Saudi Arabia - sort of joining the early 20th century 118 years late

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A good article at NPR about the Saudis feeling some "culture shock" at the sudden attempt at modernizing social views by their ne...

Distressing comedy news

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I missed that the ABC has renewed the woeful "Tonightly" with Tom Ballard. It has been distressing me that it has also leaked l...
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Low islands and climate change, revisited

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Early in the life of this blog, I used to criticise the reporting of politicians and environmentalists claims about sea level rise being abo...
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