Opinion Dominion

One thing that keeps striking me as really odd is the way the USA and China both went basically nuts at pretty much the same time: What I do...

An interesting thread noticed on Twitter:

I don't know where the photos might have first appeared, but I saw them on this tweet, and they are causing much amusement across the la...

I'm feeling a bit guilty about saying Disney probably deserves some "woke" pushback, because, as with everything in the cultur...

 

Is it just me, or does it seem to others too that the various US state's efforts to make abortion illegal (or at least, extremely restr...

The New York Times has an article about this very worrying aspect of current American politics: The Growing Religious Fervor in the American...

I wouldn't have expected that local (and state) government in Vancouver would have such a very relaxed attitude to the retailing of magi...

What's the bet that this guy is blitzing his school studies?   Talk about your perfect fit for the "Asian student over-achiever&quo...

It does feel a bit awkward, not feeling like I can really take a clear side on the culture wars engulfing Disney and the American Right. Rep...

Go on.  Watch the happy life story of Ke Huy Quan (Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ) in this interview with Jimmy Kimmel...

From a John Gray review of a book about Stalin's reading habits: Stalin’s Library is an account of the dictator’s intellectual and po...

I thought this opinion piece in the Washington Post, criticising advocates for the homeless as often letting the perfect be the enemy of th...

This sad sack of a culture war conservative has been running "be wary of anti-Russian propaganda" for the whole of the Ukraine inv...

This video from CNA about how the Maldives are dealing with sea level rise was quite interesting. I was  surprised at how heavily built on s...

 

I had grave doubts I would like it, but I watched The Power of the Dog on the weekend anyway. It confirmed my suspicions that Jane Campion ...

There's a really good article in Science talking about the Earth's inner core which starts: Earth’s magnetic field, nearly as old a...

I didn't watch all of the Oscars this year, and I'm actually rather tired of the (annual) "why the show doesn't work anymor...

Years ago ( gosh - 2006! ), I posted about having recurring "I can levitate and I can prove it" dreams, in which I was not only t...