Opinion Dominion
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Wednesday, September 09, 2020
Thanks, social media
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Another appalling story of malicious rumour mongering on social media in India: Wild rumours about coronavirus are fuelling opposition ...
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Almost makes you wish bad problems were even worse
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This may be kind of obvious, but I haven't noticed too many people saying it: the problem in a social sense with both COVID 19 and clim...
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You want to feel depressed about the future of cheap overseas travel?
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Then read this commentary at CNA: Does COVID-19 spell the end of long-haul budget airline flights?
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American policing noted
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Even by American policing standards, this is outstandingly nuts: A 13-year-old boy with autism was shot several times by police officers wh...
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Tuesday, September 08, 2020
Count me "amused"
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An ancient key to Tenet?
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I hadn't heard about this before: Nolan's film Tenet seems to have clear ties to an old palindrome square: The ancient pa...
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I'm a high scorer
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If I admit that my score on this appears to be 11 or perhaps even a 12, can I reclaim status as a "conservative"?:
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Mystery phone
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I have gifted myself (but not yet opened) a new, low mid-range (as is my cheapskate wont) Android mobile phone, even though it is seemingly ...
System failure of the worst kind
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This guy (who stalked and shot his teenage kids in their house, following the daughter from her bus to find out where they lived) just sound...
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Monday, September 07, 2020
The singing tyrants
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OK, so there's a reasonable chance you've seen it elsewhere, but I think it's only been out for less than a week, and I thought ...
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Nick Cohen being sensible
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I have been saying a similar thing for at few years now: I once believed that you should fight the extreme right and extreme left “at the ...
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Reviews you didn't need
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* I've not finished it yet, but I can fully understand why the second season of Umbrella Academy has been so popular on Netflix. It&...
Saturday, September 05, 2020
A good answer from Biden
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Have a look at this short clip. As someone on Twitter says about his answer:
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Trump campaign taking on water
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I get the impression there is probably panic developing inside the Trump campaign for the following reasons: * sufficient polling seems t...
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Friday, September 04, 2020
Family performance
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Given that I lack any ability at all with musical instruments, and even the simplest sheet music may as well be hieroglyphics to me, I find ...
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Otters as pets
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Apparently, Youtube channels devoted to pet otters have become a thing in the last year or so. They are very cute to watch, if this one is...
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Worst Attorney General
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Greg Sargent at Washington Post on why Barr is such a dangerous jerk (short version - he buys into the Right's decades' long, cultu...
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Thursday, September 03, 2020
Some COVID thoughts
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* the Victorian lockdown certainly seems to show, again, that strict lockdowns work; * there seems to be surprisingly infrequent polling...
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Wednesday, September 02, 2020
The French method
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I followed a link to an article in The Economist about a big new university in France , and read this explanation as to rather different wa...
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Public service announcement from the Republican Party
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(There's a near 100% chance that someone else has already done this on Twitter, but I haven't seen it yet.)
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