Opinion Dominion

The only way Steve Kates could climb further up Peak Cult Trump would be if he starts speculating on a transgender options, so that he can p...

The "best" spin the diehard Laffer lovers can put on this is that the tax cuts have not (so far) caused a revenue drop:   but at a...

There's a really interesting perspective piece in the Washington Post about the stupid civil war talk in the US at the moment, putting ...

Yes, I agree with the gist of Nick Bryant's article , noting that it's hard to avoid the feeling that authoritarian leadership aroun...

Oh, I didn't realise this (the bit about never visiting the shrine) about Japanese Emperor Akihito: The chief priest at Japan's ...

It was back in March that I last had a whinge about unnecessary blood letting and violence in video games.   In that post , I complained abo...

I'm still finding it is well acted and looks terrific, but I have too issues with episode 3: *  too horsey; * this show is starting ...

Seems to be an unusual spike in a rare kid's paralysis in Minnesota .   A connection with a viral infection (mild of itself) seems likel...

My recent post about ridiculously dangerous milk was all due to reviews of Deborah Blum's book The Poison Squad , and from an NPR interv...

ATTP has a post up in which he wonders out loud about an issue I've long complained about in relation to climate change impacts: Howe...

I'm sure his very big brain will come to the right conclusions...

In reaction to this story :   Gay students and teachers could be rejected by religious schools under changes to anti-discrimination laws ...

One thing very clear about the Right's reaction to Christine Ford's testimony was that her voice drove them nuts - I've read sco...

Somehow I had missed previously reading about Hannah Arendt's comments on the use of propaganda in the rise of totalitarianism.  But I s...

I quite like Conan O'Brien:  certainly he deserves some sort of award for weirdest looking dude to ever have a successful late night tal...

*  Brett Kavanaugh getting sacked after getting absurdly drunk at a Supreme Court welcome function, and being found in a dimly lit corner of...

Hey, there's a very impressive tweet thread by one David Neiwert , who has studied the American  "coming civil war" rhetoric t...

There's something charming about a study looking into how mice couples communicate after one of them has been "unfaithful": ...

*  All Australian males over the age of 40 have a crush on Julia Zemero, don't they?  (Homer excepted, if I remember correctly.)   Hence...

As I wrote below, I was watching that Batman v Superman movie on Friday and noted Holly Hunter was in it.  I saw her in something else recen...