Opinion Dominion

What's this?   An economist at RMIT, who presumably runs into Sinclair Davidson from time to time, has an article up at The Conversation...

Axios has some questions for Peter Thiel which are nicely sarcastic : Peter Thiel doubled down last night on his "Google has maybe...

Mind you, any real soldier doing this anywhere near a battlefield could not be a bigger target.  But yeah, looks cool.   His next feat ...

In Science magazine: This month, officials in Los Angeles, California, are expected to approve a deal that would make solar power cheaper...

Google doesn't seem all that wise about what to recommend to me on Youtube, otherwise I would have known about aviation and travel blogg...

News.com.au ran an article yesterday with this headline: Plastic bag ban: Critics warn it isn’t helping Australia reduce waste The ma...

A harsh, but somewhat amusing, take on a TV debate between Johnson and Hunt: Brexit dominated the first 45 minutes and as expected neithe...

A collection of links showing the carelessness and endangerment inherent in the Wikileaks enterprise, and the flakeiness of Julian Assange: ...

Slate has a long, sad story about a book that sold well amongst  US evangelicals, but the guy at the centre of the story denies that it was...

In another of my "I am a wannabe 'influencer' but I am a complete failure at it" posts, I endorse the following products, ...

I still haven't been on one.  Still tempted.  But someone writing at the Washington Post now loves using them. 

I found a surprising amount of sticky, brown crud stuck in the front loading washing machine today, behind the mould affected rubber seal an...

There's a funny column by Marina Hyde at The Guardian that points to something pretty obvious: Ruining a country near you soon: the be...

Found via the Anomalist, a very basic web page that looks like it might be from the 1990's, but with interesting link content: Every I...

Singapore certainly seems to be ahead of the "slow down" curve: SINGAPORE: Singapore’s economy grew by a meagre 0.1 per cent ...

Did you have trouble following the rules at school? I've told you what the rules here are: *  Any inane, slanderous comment to do wi...

At the ABC: With the long-term decline in fertility rates among western men, how worried are you about you or your partner's sperm? ...

As a child, I wasn't the biggest fan of TV's Batman, and I still don't care for anything related to the character.   [I've t...

Is France the only country where homoeopathy has a genuinely large popular following?   For a country that is pretty modern and capable of h...

I've never experienced really severe turbulence in an aircraft, but incidents like this one sound really frightening.    Last year, th...