Opinion Dominion

As we can all agree the Trump administration is going about as appallingly as expected (I knew , before he did his press conference, that he...

I noted recently that I cancelled my Washington Post subscription, in an attempt to punish Bezos for sucking up to Trump, including by a not...

As I have grown older, I keep having the odd combination of thinking that World War 2 now seems a long time ago; but also that anything that...

I'm referring, only partly ironically, to all of the tech world turmoil that the Chinese AI company DeepSeek has caused in the last wee...

Good to see this explained succinctly:

This has long been noted by normal people as a peculiar thing about the Republicans concern with masculinity: Yes, the Trump act is full of ...

Well, it does indeed feel like that Decemberists song "Everything is Awful" , with the Trump inauguration and the somewhat distres...

I think this Ezra Klein opinion piece in the New York Times (gift linked): Trump Barely Won the Popular Vote. Why Doesn’t It Feel That Way? ...

David Lynch has passed away .   It's hard to dislike an eccentric artist who manages to get eccentric movies made in Hollywood; and cert...

I cancelled my Washington Post subscription, even though in the process they offered another year at $4 a month, which is incredibly cheap. ...

  Update :   This is Sam Harris talking, apparently:

I pretty much took the day off work yesterday, due to a lingering cold that seems to have caught me on the flight back from Singapore (thank...

Naomi is an extraordinary nut.  Zuck is pathetic.

The Washington Post has an article with the headline "Why Los Angeles was unprepared for this fire" . I have a problem starting ri...

Trump's rambling, grievance full, press conference is getting much attention.   This was big of him: Asked on Tuesday whether he would r...

Happy New Year, folks. Guess which city I ended up in for New Year's Eve?   Details will follow in an update...  Update:  So, I'm st...

This is an interesting Comment is Free article at The Guardian - arguing that Christianity really caught on as a result of a plague in the ...

First, have a Happy Christmas, everyone. And now, let's ask Musk's AI thingee Grok to generate a nativity scene featuring New Jersey...

For some of us, it's a boring, tedious drone that robs of the airwaves of something better... Each to their own, of course:  but the thi...

It's the hair on the dog that does it for me 😀.