Opinion Dominion

What's been clear for more than a decade is that the Coalition needs to purge itself of the climate change denying rump that cannot be r...

I didn't notice this story getting any attention in the media a couple of weeks ago after it appeared in Science - which is a bit surpr...

I mean, the jury is still deciding after a trial in which the judge appeared to be a cantankerous anti-prosecution interferer, and I s...

Science seems to have the full article from its magazine available on line about the remarkably extensive fraudulent medical research of on...

So, climate change denying conservative numbskulls like Bolt and Blair are getting excited about the prospect of Turnbull getting rolled in ...

So, the wingnutty Right is really getting into this "Nazis were socialists" meme - even extending it to "America defeated com...

She drove us nuts until we relented and got her a low-end iPhone, because, like, the iPhone/Android ratio amongst teenage girls in Australia...

Back in 2014 I put up a post about an important physicist of the 20th century who I felt I should have known about:  Leo Szilard.   (He'...

What Paul Krugman says in this twitter thread makes perfect sense:   Republicans have been referring to the "social safety net" o...

I don't eat that many oysters anymore - the general cost of most wild caught seafood has escalated so much that the good quality fish sh...

An opinion piece at the New York Times: Worried About Turkey’s Economic Problems? China’s Could Be Worse 

My dedicated reader Homer pointed out to my other dedicated reader Jason in comments recently an anonymous economics blogger pseudoerasmus w...

From the Washington Post: How climate change is making ‘red tide’ algal blooms even worse  Once again I ask:  how did economists trying ...

I've been thinking about renewable energy storage using compressed air.  As you do. I started looking at the topic because of a recent...

The ABC will not renew the terrible, terrible Tonightly with Tom Ballard .  Not a moment too soon.   It was awful in all respects, from th...

Gee, Tim Blair is upset that Malcolm Turnbull looks like getting his way on an energy plan which no one (including me) seems to understand a...

I saw on TV last Christmas a report about the terrible problems with the potable water supply of Jakarta, but it didn't mention another ...

I was very amused by Kitty Flanagan's own version of "12 Rules for Life" as appeared on The Weekly last week: In fact, I h...

She may be a nut herself, but this story from Manigault has an air of "this is too weird to be an invention" about it: ...

Gee, David Frum gives a good history of D'Souza's decline in this piece at The Atlantic.     He includes a link to historian Kevin K...