Opinion Dominion

Wow: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the independent presidential candidate who has marketed himself to voters as a younger, healthier alternative to...

While searching for something on this blog recently, I realised how often in its early days I used to link to articles by Bryan Appleyard.  ...

I'm a pretty late adopter of electric toothbrushes.   I started using one, the base Oral B model, maybe 3 or 4 years ago?, and that was ...

Yet more Washington Post content for you:  I find it very hard to find any fault in Max Boot's criticism  of the  pro-Palestinian unive...

You know, I prefer the Washington Post to the New York Times.   Here are a couple of eye-catching stories from the former, this morning:   G...

I don't post on weekends very often anymore.  Largely, that's because I don't have a decent desktop at home, and usually leave m...

An article in the Washington Post takes a pretty open minded attitude to the stories of children who, at a young age, seem to recall a past...

It's one hundred years since one of the most successful public health campaigns, ever, started: On May 1, 1924, the first iodized salt a...

I don't think I ever got around to posting these photos from last year's trip to Japan. In the old Imperial Palace in Kyoto, a sign ...

First:   I started commenting recently that Biden's image as aged and decrepit is now largely from his gait, and I even suggested that p...

Due to this article at The Conversation: Why are adults without kids hooked on Bluey? And should we still be calling it a ‘kids’ show’?  I h...

An article that is free to read at Vox, for now, is pretty interesting: How anxiety became a catchall for every unpleasant emotion Here’s ho...

I've never been one for rallies, regardless of how worthy their causes are.   It's just that it seems so extremely rare that they ac...

I've seen a couple of episodes of Michael Palin's 2022 TV series (currently being run on SBS) in which he travelled through Iraq.   ...

I hadn't noticed physicist Neil Turok before, but this lengthy interview with him posted recently on Youtube is really good.  Well, at l...

I had been wondering who Republican speaker Mike Johnson was reminding me of when I have seen him talking to the press recently, and yester...

I don't know who is behind this Youtube channel , and I also note that it is not putting out new stuff very often now, but I was impress...

I've always been skeptical of the doom-sayers regarding advanced, self aware, AI being a threat to humanity:  sure, there may be smart p...

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