Opinion Dominion

*   Why the hell does anyone care about a old timey restaurant chain changing its logo????    Sure, masked employees of the government are ...

As gleaned from my very recent internet consumption: *   LLMs and AI, and AGI, have all been massively overhyped.   The impetus for the sudd...

I was listening to a podcast on the weekend from the Tricycle podcast channel featuring a guy talking about the key Buddhist idea of "n...

David Brooks wrote a column last week which feels half wrong, and half right:  The Rise of Right-Wing Nihilism. He starts with what most peo...

This well written piece that was in the New York Times about parents whose daughter committed suicide, and they later got to read her ...

I'm surprised how little attention this has drawn: For months, Israeli officials have spoken in increasingly strident tones about wantin...

Who is this woman, and why does she seem to make so much sense:      (I feel like those are impliedly sexist questions - but this video ha...

 This next bit has even more " 'Sir', he said with tears in his eyes 'Sir I have to tell you ...' " energy:  

Jordan Peterson makes the news again over his peculiar health issues: Controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson is expected to ta...

Another interesting NYT piece - this time about 75 year Republican Rick Perry going all in for a new hallucinogenic I hadn't even heard...

A New York Times background piece on "stablecoins" is well worth reading. Sounds like a whole lot of trouble brewing, if you ask m...

I was reminded this morning that Singapore's name allegedly comes from an apparent misidentification of a tiger as lion.   ( See Wikiped...

Apart from the egregious open corruption that was Tim Cook's suck up visit at the White House, one thing I noted from the video:     w...

Singapore's National Day Parade was (as acknowledged by most Singaporeans on Reddit too) really good this year.  As I said to my son who...

 I also saw Scott Bessant - the person who people thought might talk sense to Trump, given his past background, but who immediately turned i...

Much to my surprise, I see that Blogger has greeted me this morning with a new beta feature, which will add links to terms in a post that it...

If I wasn't so busy at work lately, and the plane seats were a bit more certain, I would have headed off to Singapore to be there on its...

It was at the very top of The Guardians website this morning, but has since moved down the page.  It's still given a very large space, t...

It's fascinating, and makes me feel somewhat emotional, to read the first hand accounts of what it was like being on the Enola Gay when ...

I'm sure I have mentioned this before, but the short explainer videos that the Wall Street Journal puts out now, often as a corrective t...