Opinion Dominion

The online world, and especially the crypto community, is lambasting Madonna upon the release of her and Beeple's new collection of se...

Yes, Glenn Greenwald actually says that people who make on line death threats are not the people the target of the threat should worry about...

My wife is home with a cough and sore throat, and I have been having (admittedly mild) passing symptoms of a cold too.  Both of us did a RAT...

  Update:    Speaking of Republicans/Conservatives always wanting to be the victim, have a read of the ridiculous lines Ted Cruz was mouthin...

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from young mice can improve memory function in older mice, researchers report today in Nature . A direct brain in...

 

I'll just let a series of tweets tell the story:  (I initially thought the tweets saying that judge's neighbours were supporting the...

  Um...   I would assume it's because if voters don't see abortion affecting them personally, they won't change their vote regar...

I'm starting to think that even the pro-mining voters of Queensland and NSW can't stop a Labor victory: Speaking of the pro-miners, ...

Quite a good essay at Aeon here about an idea popularised by Marx that has been influential.  Here's a part near the start: ...the most...

 In Australia:   Mind you, the evidence from New Catallaxy is that Australian right wingers, who are extraordinarily gullible when it comes ...

A somewhat disturbing picture: Yes, yes:  pragmatists will argue that this is what politicians do when campaigning - and look at the amount ...

Denis Muller really puts the boot into the News Corp abandonment of journalism in its coverage of the Australian election.   Good.  [Don'...

I've been to a couple of Asian restaurants in the last few weeks, over in the heavily Chinese/Asian part of Brisbane (Sunnybank/Sunnyban...

Over the weekend, I realised that two women who, if I had been asked, I would have guessed incorrectly had already died, came to mind:   Ime...

Spotted on Twitter: How old is Sullivan?   58?   He's old enough to know better. I posted before about a Noah Smith substack post in whi...

*  David Koch this morning was extremely dismissive of the answers Peter Dutton was giving regarding the Solomon Islands situation.   He di...

The Guardian notes: Greens candidate for Brisbane, Stephen Bates, has taken out an advertisement on Grindr, “the world’s largest social ne...