Opinion Dominion

I've been wondering for ages where the obsession with protein in the diet came from.   This article in the New York Times doesn't fu...

Yes I'm back from the short trip to Jakarta/Yogyakarta.    Let's start with the photo above of the Hindu (and Buddhist) temple compo...

Well this might be a first for this illustrious blog.  Qantas wifi might  allow me to post during a flight over the vast and soooo empty Aus...

Seems to me that the American stock market is actually not taking as seriously as it should the effect of Chinese tariffs.   I guess there i...

I finally got to the end of the abridged version of Journey to the West.  I liked this passage in the last chapter about Buddhism: It is dif...

Interesting opinion piece seems to be free to read at the Jakarta Post (for now anyway): Why corruption thrives in a religious society This...

I was watching a clip from CNN this morning featuring two American women who run small businesses and their concerns about the tariffs. One ...

Funny the things that can pop into your head while ironing a shirt.  Or am I just remembering something I have already read online? For some...

I would guess that like most people, I have the slimmest understanding of bond markets, but as far as I can tell, the changes in the US mark...

I note that the headline on an NPR article about a new book on the last Presidential election has this headline: Biden's closest adviser...

*  I still think, after viewing the extended sneak peek on Youtube , that the new Superman film does look good.  It's weird, but so many...

Sure, there are some around who tread carefully, sound socially responsible and don't go nuts.   But - Elon Musk, obviously. And now, I...

Today's New York Times:  

‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunt...

Paul Krugman is back in a de facto way at the New York Times, talking to Ezra Klein about tariffs and Trump and national security and all s...

When I first heard the "Mar a Lago accord" I thought it might be another conspiracy theory, perhaps this time of the Left.   But n...