Opinion Dominion

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Tuesday, April 06, 2021

Lazy weekend

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My Easter weekends are usually pretty lazy:  too many people on the road and the weather is often hit or miss for holiday fun.  (It was a pr...
Thursday, April 01, 2021

Jinn fizz

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An unusual jinn story found in Gulf News: Kuwaiti woman pays $96,000 to get rid of jinn Cairo: A Kuwaiti woman has accused two other wom...

Time travelling at the University of Queensland

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I have written many posts over the years about time travel, and while I am pretty sure I read this article in 2020 about some theoretical wo...

Needling

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Has anyone else noticed that news camera operators (I was going to say "camera men", which most of them surely are, but I decided ...
Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Some drug comedy

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It's a couple of weeks old now, but I thought this sketch on Conan was pretty funny:

Pet ownership is great, but really...

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The SMH reprints a story I had missed in the Washington Post: Taiwan is home to one of the world’s most active communities of pet psychics...

China and crypto

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I haven't been paying much attention to the situation of China with cryprocurrency, but last night on China's All Propaganda, All th...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

New Age men and Qanon

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At the Washington Post, an article about the odd cross over between some New Age masculinity fans (like the horned guy at the 6 January rio...
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Space sounds even more unhealthy than expected

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Gee, I seem to recall that Arthur C Clarke and other science fiction optimists used to speculate that heart patients might benefit from a pe...
Monday, March 29, 2021

The Pentagon blowing up the ship and the canal not necessary after all

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News just now: A huge container ship that has been wedged in the Suez Canal since Tuesday has reportedly been refloated. Video posted socia...
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Fertility worries

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A somewhat interesting interview with a professor of environmental medicine who is sounding the alarm bell about declining fertility and ch...
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Friday, March 26, 2021

The stool of wisdom

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Well, this gut flora influences everything idea might be able to be taken to the next level: The new Frontiers in Psychiatry study involve...

Going to a Roman pub was a little different back in the day?

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From an interview with a historian who has written a pop history book about murder in ancient Rome, she explains why she got into ancient hi...
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Thursday, March 25, 2021

Go home, Liberal Party, you're drunk

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So, some Liberals are disputing Peta Credlin's "I sacked the gay guy, but someone re-employed him" narrative: Federal Liberal ...
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Is the Coalition having some kind of collective nervous breakdown about their sexual behaviour?

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I thought it was supposed to be only Labor, and perhaps the Greens, who were all busy having illicit sex since the 1960's because they w...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021

The media is very bad at context, sometimes

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Even the great Planet America show last week did not seem to emphasise this enough - they showed similar graphs, ran a full length intervie...
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Good gorilla Dads

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Well, if you overlook the infanticide they might commit before having their own kids, at least.  Science reports: A few years ago, four fema...

Odd things that continue to worry me

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I get the feeling I have mentioned one or more of these before, but just have had an urge to repeat them: *   I am forever puzzled by the ...

He's hopeless

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I'm certainly hoping that more people are beginning to realise the asinine incompetence of Scott Morrison and the  LNP generally.   The ...
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Monday, March 22, 2021

Stupid Prick

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I can explain the title - James Morrow tweets/used to blog under the name "Prick with a Fork".   He now features on the ridiculous...
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