Opinion Dominion

So, I saw reference to this on Twitter, when Phillip Adams asked the twitterverse last weekend to tell him the meaning of life.  (I think he...

OK, so I was feeling like looking up something odd to post, and clicked on the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality.   What are the chances, ...

While I work out which takes on the IPCC report I want to highlight here (there are a lot to choose from), you can do worse than read an art...

Treatment of rare cases of blood clotting in brain following COVID-19 vaccination

Pakistan has for years been a hotbed of anti-vax conspiracy belief against even the simplest vaccine available - the oral one for polio.   T...

According to Axios , Republicans are actually feeling very positive about big gains in their coming mid term election, based on a few issues...

My daughter took this pic while the dog had snuck upstairs and got on her bed.  This is unauthorised behaviour. Still, the photo amuses me.

That Washington Post reports : The most sought after marijuana being trafficked across the U.S.-Mexico border is now the weed entering Mex...

In more Creightonism: In the news: On Saturday, according to the Centers for Disease Control, Florida reported 23,903 new cases of  COVID-19...

It's a big week for rats and mice here. First, a cute article at the ABC about how lab researchers are tickling rats to keep them happy...

So I am about 24 hours since my first AstraZeneca jab.   The effects are very minor.   I didn't feel sick at all last night, not even a ...

 

Due the generosity of my daughter, I now have access to Disney +, and have started watching The Mandalorian and Loki . Unfortunately, my pr...

Gulf News reports : Abu Dhabi: Malaysian police rescued a 28-year-old Malaysian man after he attempted to swim the nearly 7,000km from Mal...

Last night's Mad as Hell really had some particularly sharp and funny writing in it, I thought.   It's really such a credit to the w...

I strongly suspect that Jason Soon, and perhaps some other readers, may have thought I was being part of the problem, so to speak, by saying...

Over at Science Daily there are some rodent studies of interest: Rats prefer to help their own kind; Humans may be similarly wired The findi...

A good bit of commentary at Vox by Zack Beauchamp:  The Anti-American Right.   I'll copy part of it: How the right’s hyper-patriotism cu...

I keep saying the pandemic is obviously complicated, and noted last week that the UK drop in COVID cases was a puzzle.   There's an arti...

It's been quite a while since I have complained about Chris Berg and his cloak of affability giving him some undeserved cover for terrib...