Opinion Dominion

The Washington Post notes: Saturday’s steamy 84-degree reading was posted in Arkhangelsk, Russia , where the average high temperature is ...

Biblical Archaeology Review has an article, summarised here , arguing that dogs generally get a pretty positive treatment in the Bible, and ...

David Frum's piece in The Atlantic about how Trump is getting angry with the FBI - again! - is good reading: Trump got extra angry Su...

Sounds rather like some murder suicide by crossbow in Germany.    Also sounds like cult-ish people involved? : A hotel guest said the man ...

I feel this is another embarrassing admission, but I didn't realise, until I saw it on SBS this morning, that there was a good English n...

The BBC reports that some bars in some big cities are trying to operate completely alcohol free, and are (apparently) growing in popularity...

*   Anyone who notices food writing will know that whole baked cauliflower has been the "new" big thing for a couple of years now ...

NPR has a story about Mongolia's Biggest Camel Festival, and it features many photos of dolled up camels, like this one: They do lo...

Where am I supposed to buy my Italian washed rind cheese now?? It was only last week that I said I was worried about the very upmarket del...

Ugh.  I see the Washington Post has a story about tigers being farmed and eaten in Laos. I just posted about a ridiculous caste story from...

From the Times of India: Dalit groom rides horse, community faces boycott   If I understand it right, it was the leadership who were b...

Why am I reading this in the Washington Post and not in the Australian media, when it's from Australian researchers?: It may be poss...

Spotted in the Jakarta Post: The Indonesian coal price reference (HBA) has continued to decline this month due to shrinking market demand...

Slate has a report of an event that I'm guessing with thrill the American Right:  apparently, a "vigil" for the student kille...

I see that Helen Dale has turned up on a Youtube with Carl Benjamin, better known (apparently) as Sargon of Akkad, discussing Brexit.   The ...

I have been curious to try a Lime scooter:  they look sort of fun, but my inherently conservative view towards my safety might mean I not go...

Mark Latham's descendent into creepy old man Right wing culture war whinger was on full display in his maiden speech to the New South Wa...

While you can still find tweets and the occasional headline like this: Trump shows he still doesn't grasp who bears the brunt of tarif...

This one's sure to appeal to Jason.  Lots of good points made in Max Boot's Washington Post column about America's weirdly dis...

If anything, I wish he had been more sarcastic and ridiculing of Morrison's laughable line that the Coalition accepted climate change a...