Opinion Dominion

In a conversation over some craft beer last weekend, the topic of pagan practices being pretty ugly came up briefly, specifically this pract...

Not that I want to upset our (slightly delayed) future Overlords, but Chinese sensitivity to imagined  historical slights is getting out of...

It's pretty rare to see significant construction accidents in Australia lately, it seems; and this one seems particularly embarrassing g...

From Japan Times: The Imperial Household Agency is considering excavating Daisen Kofun in Osaka Prefecture, the country’s largest ancient b...

I learnt stuff from this column at CNN . 

I have to say, the New York Times Op-docs videos on Youtube are very good.  Very artfully made, sometimes a bit trivial but still extremely ...

I love when it's cheap, fresh corn season, and over the last couple of years I've tried making corn fritters a couple of times, with...

I refer to cheery Chas on Planet America who keeps saying Biden is playing this wrong.  

Oh look, maybe body builders have stumbled onto something good.  From Science last month : A dietary supplement bodybuilders use to bulk up ...

...but this Twitter commentary on how a Trump interview on Hannity went a short time ago is pretty amusing:  

 And also, what she said:

It's impossible to read the conservative reactions on Twitter and the net to Kamala Harris's debate performance without seeing screa...

Seeking diversity of topics for this blog, I just had a scroll through this year's Archives of Sexual Behaviour.   As you do.   I see th...

Didn't see any of it, but seems to me that Harris supporters think she won, and Pence supporters think he did.   (Actually, in the routi...

Noticed this at Gulf News : Manila: Online misinformation is leaching out from cheap mobile phones and free Facebook plans used by million...

I should know more than the average Australian about what (some) Japanese don't like about their own culture, but this list by a young J...

Forgot to mention on the weekend, but this Vox piece: Is it immoral if you feel schadenfreude about Trump’s Covid-19?  is really good.  Afte...

Patricia Karvelas is quite OK as a broadcaster on the ABC, even though her evening slot means I don't hear all that much of her show.   ...

Last weekend - saw the recent Netflix Tom Holland/Robert Pattinson vehicle The Devil All the Time . First:  how does Tom Holland manage to a...

You all know I had no time for Rudd as a politician, but he really has a point here: