Opinion Dominion

I saw this pop up on Twitter, and James Blunt endorsing it.   Very funny, and you know, I don't recall seeing the video for the song bef...

Hey, have a look at this article from Judith Sloan in the rubbish Australian Spectator from July 2021, whining about how she can't read ...

I'm sure that it's been noted on Twitter that Phil Coorey has moved to the right in his current gig at the AFR.   Today's column...

Greg Sargent goes to town on Trump and his family over their stupidly political decision to refuse to mask up even after he had tested posi...

Take him down: Two Georgia election workers targeted by former U.S. President Donald Trump in a vote-rigging conspiracy theory have sued a...

Over at Science , an article about how hippos crapping prodigiously in their ponds means they share a lot of gut microbiome, as well as crea...

Well, this sounds somewhat creepy , and reminds me of the nanobot menace that featured in No Time to Die : The robots are alive, and now th...

Back to a matter of long standing intrigue - how people before the 20th century put up with the risk of extremely serious venereal disease (...

Thomas Friedman writes in the NYT : The judges have voted and the results are in: President Donald Trump’s decision to tear up the Iran nuc...

I saw this on Twitter, in response to a Noah Smith tweet, but haven't had time to read it yet.  Seems good and interesting, though.  

I must admit, if ever I had heard this before, it did not stick in my mind.  But I'm finding it so remarkable, I'm inclined to think...

So, this Christmas brings me adult science fiction ( Dune ) and Steven Spielberg directing his first musical ( West Side Story ) which seems...

Not very well for pigs, or pig farmers.  (I guess the pigs were going to die anyway, but it is a waste to breed an animal and kill it not fo...

Last night, I tried watching the 4th episode of Squid Game, and I'm officially out.  It struck me as a particularly unpleasant episode. ...

Amused to see this on Twitter: Not all engineers are know-it-all jerks; it's just that if you meet a male know-it-all jerk, betting that...

I will have to check on the Cathollaxy blog later, but I trust that the anti-government COVID response protesters are getting frustrated tha...

I can't even remember the last, pre-pandemic, movie I saw at the cinema.  Maybe if I search my movie review posts I could work it out. B...

I don't care for Sondheim's work, although to be honest, I haven't really paid close enough attention to work out why.  Tentativ...

In the history books, PM Morrison is going down as the shallow, hapless PM who thought he could PR his way to success, while not being brigh...

That's my theory behind this headline (and review) :   The Beatles: Get Back review – eight hours of TV so aimless it threatens your san...