Opinion Dominion

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Friday, August 30, 2024

Amusing

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 From the Onion, of course...
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The bad news continent

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That would be Africa, which seems to rarely be the source of positive news lately. Today, in the New York Times, for example: The resurgence...
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Thursday, August 29, 2024

This is so sleazy

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I'm assuming the "@realdonaldtrump" tic tok account is his?  (Yes, I just checked and it surely is.) This is such an appalling...
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The Moon as lifeboat

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I've been muttering about lunar colonisation having a potential "lifeboat" function for Earth if ever it faces global catastro...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024

The youth crime issue

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The lefty Australian twitter accounts I see have been going off about the new conservative Northern Territory government saying that they de...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2024

New York Times introduces comedy section

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Spotted in today's NYT:  I liked this comment in response:  
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Monday, August 26, 2024

Yet more scepticism on psychedelics for mental health

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A lengthy article appeared in the New York Times a couple of days ago about the growing scepticism of many of the studies about the use of p...
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Matt Berry, vampire

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I recently mentioned how funny I find What We Do in the Shadows (the series made out of the movie), and how it seems under-recognised in Aus...
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For the conspiracy mongers out there

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Here's an article from the Washington Post about what remains to be released about the John F Kennedy assassination, noting how Trump h...
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Saturday, August 24, 2024

What a turnaround

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I'm talking about the Democratic Convention, where it seems absolutely everything went spectacularly right.  (Well, save for the mystery...
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Friday, August 23, 2024

Late to view

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I'm a decade late to getting around to watching Season 1 of True Detective , the show about which I continually read suffered a big decl...
Thursday, August 22, 2024

Nuttiest candidate no more?

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Disappointing to read that RFK Jnr is almost certain to pull out of the Presidential race , since it seemed well confirmed that staying in w...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Green balls of fire

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I've always been skeptical of Luis Elizondo's claims about the significance of his role in the Pentagon's seemingly on again/off...
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So that's what sane politics looks like

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Surely the overwhelming reaction that anyone reasonable should get from watching the Democrat Convention is "So, this is what a sane an...
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Relativism and Asian philosophy, revisited

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Many, many years ago, I read online an essay by someone (no one famous, I'm pretty sure) about Eastern philosophy, and (I think) Buddhis...
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Power for the taking

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This is what I like to see - a specific proposal for the expansion of clean energy.  From the Conversation: Our calculations show Australi...
Monday, August 19, 2024

Some positive things

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*  By and large, I think the ABC still does radio pretty well.   I would mark out for particular praise the overall likeability and competen...

Twitter madhouse

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Musk's play thing formally known as Twitter is absolutely awash at the moment with Right Wing panic and attempts to invent and make slur...
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Good news for aurora hopefuls

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I had assumed that the recent very extensive aurora, which I would quite like to see but live too far north, would not likely be repeated an...
Friday, August 16, 2024

Biden blows apart an attempted Trump narrative

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The one about how incredibly bitter he is over giving up his candidacy, and he might try to take it back at the convention.  He was talking ...
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