Opinion Dominion

I visited Notre Dame in about 1986, and was very impressed.   On the same trip, I had found the cathedrals of England too light inside to gi...

AEON has a fairly long essay up on the above topic , full of interesting details, some of which I have not heard before.  Like this bit abou...

Good to see that David Leyonhjelm, despite having a very high profile maintained by saying immature, attention seeking things in the Senate ...

* Saw Captain Marvel . Pretty much what I expected - quite OK, but a bit Marvel movie bland.  I said to my son that the visual look of out...

It's annoying when the alarm wakes you from a dream you're curious to see played out. This morning, I was with the family at a the...

Gosh.  Tim Blake Nelson first came to my attention with his terrific comedic acting as Delmar in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou , but I see from...

I find this guy pretty funny and likeable.    I kind of hope he makes it to the Senate. 

I've fallen out of the habit of checking on the Times of India for some of the oddest crime and legal reporting to be found on the plane...

Hey, Media:  did it ever occur to you that there are probably quite a lot of people who have never watched an episode of GOT, and have no in...

A paranormal investigator who abused Virgin airline workers over the phone has avoided jail because of his excessive weight. He sounds an ...

I was pretty blown away by watching World From Above on SBS on the weekend - the one about Algeria.  Some of the desert scenery was very spe...

1.  Is this a recent photo of James Packer?: It might just be the angle, but it makes him look (with that thick neck) a tad Neandertha...

*  Can a President be Too Old , asks the Washington Post. Answer:   Yes, obviously.  Like, duh .  For God's sake Democrats, pick someo...

Latest in the "you do know you are admitting to being an unpleasant, uncivil jerk, don't you?", Cassie of Sydney who comments ...

From Phys.org: Zapping the brains of people over 60 with a mild electrical current improved a form of memory enough that they performed l...

Harper's Magazine has an article looking back at the life of Thomas Merton, the catholic convert who became a monk and wrote lots of bo...

An essay at Aeon notes that there is reason to suspect that Socrates had a much more complicated love life than Plato let on (or knew about...

Lots of reporting about how Trump and his Homeland Security boss fell out over the matter of whether the government agency has to follow th...

The Coalition, which by rights should come out of the forthcoming federal election with a mere handful of seats and be rebuilt from the grou...

Australian Story last night gave a quick history of The Seekers.  I had forgotten how relatively briefly they had been together.   Also how ...