Opinion Dominion

By way of explanation as to slow posting: *  Work had been very busy and distracting for quite a few months now, and it's not going to g...

 I mean, seriously: *   Hamas thinks looking like militaristic terrorists while they hand over emaciated hostages, just after they have just...

All it takes is for the executive to think it doesn't have to obey the courts, and for a craven Congress to shrug its shoulders.  I wond...

So, as this Reuters story tells us, of Elon Musk's kiddie team of "DOGE" pretend department of cost cutters and ideology enfor...

From the New York Times: For decades, the question of whether and how Palestinians might build a state in their homeland has been at the c...

As I have long said, I am no fan at all of Helen Dale and her writings, but occasionally, very occasionally, I will drop into Twitter X and ...

Yeah, I didn't realise that was a meme from the movie, which I haven't seen for many decades. I've no doubt mentioned before, th...

Of course, the Republican Party is now only comprised of the dumb and conspiracy addled, cynical, and dishonest (and the people in each of t...

With all the threats being made by Trump over the Panama Canal, let's remember that it's all about Chinese companies operating not t...

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: