Opinion Dominion

Here's something I didn't know:

 I have now seen 3 Youtube reviews of the movie version of Wicked , all by male reviewers who are not the most "bro" reviewers ar...

I quite enjoyed this article, which I found via Bluesky: Why "manifesting" is far more irrational than using a medieval service ma...

Martha Gill (who I am unfamiliar with) writing at The Guardian talks a bit about Jordan Peterson's new book, and notes more broadly tha...

 A couple of days later: Historically brief, but Gaetz’s Cabinet bid still did a lot of damage No candidate for the Cabinet has been named s...

Surely I am not alone in thinking this:   never has my opinion of billionaires been lower, in light of recent events.  The prime example, al...

 You can see I'm still looking at Twitter for laughs and giggles - seriously though, if Noah Smith ever abandons it for Bluesky, I'l...

 How old is Rowan Williams now?*   Have his eyebrows been allowed to grow ever higher til they reach his hairline?   Well, that's a bitc...

This very much reflects my views , and it explains why I am not worried about the "but it's bad to have echo chambers" aspect....

 Seriously, though:   can you imagine the MAGA uproar if a liberal billionaire was Harris's shadow everywhere if she had won?     We hav...

On the ABC news this morning : Brisbane City Council is working with police to crack down on "anti-social behaviour" at the city...

I really don't care at all for director George Miller's movies, but I do usually find Tilda Swinton extremely watchable.   Hence I d...

It's rare that I have any interest at all in a boxing match, but I'm having a particularly hard time understanding why anyone on the...

Here we were thinking the first Trump presidency was full of weirdness; but the American public decided to just see how much weirder it coul...

 *  More good news for those of us (that is, me) who want to do the lowest possible amount of exercise for blood pressure: Just five minutes...

*  Ms Gauze Filter , the MAGA nut Kari Lake, has definitely lost her Senate bid.   We have to be thankful for any small blessing we can find...

I really do think there is not enough thought put into this basic explanation of modern American politics.  That Will Stancil guy on Twitter...

 I'm surprised that there isn't a clearer online campaign for all non MAGA, Trump supporting persons to abandon Twitter and move to ...

I think I have to reluctantly say that Biden trying to do a "normal" transition of power to Trump (and probably spending most of t...