Opinion Dominion

As Ben on Urban Rescue Ranch would say:  "Well, well, well, well, well."   (It really is worth watching his eccentric act.) I had...

 

This is real:  Update:   Seeing I've already used "anal" in the post, I suppose I may as well mention it again, in a much more...

She lives in such a permanent state of hyperventilation, I think it would be in her (and the public's) interest if someone would volunte...

...from mainstream media about the vile "let's throw petrol on the fire" reaction of Fox News (and the even nuttier media outl...

Axios reports: Drought conditions are affecting about 60% of the EU and the U.K., exacerbated by climate-change driven record heat across ...

OK, so in another Washington Post column which I will gift my readers, Megan McArdle writes about the recent on line controversy over an Am...

Philip Bump in the Washington Post (I'll gift the article) summarises the history of Trump attacking the FBI for patently political pur...

Gee, I would never have guessed that this was a potential issue for home gardeners in our big cities: Backyard hens’ eggs contain 40 times m...

* Olivia Newton John's singing and movie career was hardly something I personally found terribly exciting, but there never seemed any do...

 

Noah Smith has written about why Mexico economic growth is not doing better, and as usual it sounds reasonable and interesting (as are the ...

Stuff like this makes me grind my teeth when people go on about Lefty identity politics and "cancel culture" being the real seriou...

Max Boot in the Washington Post: Republicans, once suspicious of government power, are now eager to use it to impose their agenda. Florida...

I tried watching Netflix's The Gray Man but had to give up after about 30 minutes. Look, I thought for the first 10 or so minutes I was...

An article in Vox about the "meat paradox": “the meat paradox”: the mental dissonance caused by our empathy for animals and our ...

    For the record:   I watched Blow Out on VHS in the 1980s.  I liked it. 

This seems disappointingly low : Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $4.1m (£3.3m) in damages after falsely claiming th...

 

Just saw this on Twitter:  and my reaction was "Gee, for a disease for which it seems the numbers in Australia have been holding steadi...