Opinion Dominion

NPR reports, about the pig meat industry in the USA [my bold]:  Millions Of Pigs Will Be Euthanized As Pandemic Cripples Meatpacking Plant...

Greg Sargent's column at WAPO re-visiting the problem with the mainstream media's political reporting on Trump and Republicans is r...

I found this in a International Committee of the Red Cross paper, about how Buddhists cope with COVID-19 (my bold): Very early in the hist...

Steve Kates has been on another bender of Trump worship at Catallaxy recently, re-printing large numbers of comments from The Australian in ...

Some people seem to have an active dislike for the humour attempts of the Borowitz Report at the New Yorker.  But sometimes, it really hits...

A few weeks ago, Foreign Correspondent had an interesting story on Poland , which has a real culture warring Right wing government (in cahoo...

One of Trump's back up plans for finding an excuse for [possibly, hopefully, and I think likely] losing the November election is to blam...

I like my zombies in small doses, and hence have no interest is something as protracted as The Walking Dead (ten series, seriously?), but I ...

Isn't it remarkable that Republicans and conservatives support a President who defames a vocal critic by promoting a groundless, nutty c...

Brisbane's autumn skies are often clear and really good for early evening satellite spotting. As I left work a couple of nights ago, I...

At first I thought this might have been Tony Abbott confessing as to what Peta Credlin had forced him to do: but I was mistaken .

Command of English?   Yeah, "thrown out to sea in a chaff bag" was positively Shakespearean.  As was "nigger in the wo...

Results of an observational study published yesterday in JAMA: In this study, during rapidly expanding hospitalization for COVID-19, 70%...

Alan Jones, veteran Sydney radio host, announces he will retire on health grounds  I find it a considerable puzzle how he has any substant...

....is that it has put conspiracy minded idiots in instantaneous contact with other idiots, setting up a community and cycle of mutually rei...

David Graham in The Atlantic : he even thinks that the FBI notes about the tactics to use in interviewing Flynn are a worry, but still notes...

And sure enough, Obamagate is trending on Twitter, and the Wingnut Right and Qanon idiots are beside themselves. Update:   one thing...

Boy, that Tongan teenagers shipwreck story has gone viral.  It has given us this funny stream of tweets, too: By the way:  I...

This article at Vox about Tara Reade's allegations, from a reporter who had lengthy discussions with the complainant, is the single bes...

It seems lots of people are sharing this article (actually, a book extract) in The Guardian about a 1960's case of 6 shipwrecked Tongan ...