Opinion Dominion

Gee, there's a real lack of stories that make me feel happier today.  Even before the terrible event this week in Texas, I have been thinking about how the wingnut Right maintains its beliefs ...

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/thinking-about-influencers.html

So, from this BBC report, it looks like there is going to be a blame laying argument over whether a school door was locked or not: > After crashing his truck into a ditch near the sc...

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/astounding-lack-of-common-sense.html

This is humour, of course: But really, I'm sure much of the public much be sharing the feeling that it really does look like a serious government of substance after a lost decade of Coaliti...

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-new-government-vibe-flim-flam-has.html

A lot of people are now questioning whether the police effectively allowed the killer time to kill, while holding back parents on the street. But to be fair, it is not yet entirely clear as to ...

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/police-tactics-questionned.html

From a couple of reviews of a new book out about Wittgenstein (a translation of some of his "diary" entries made during WW1).  First, in the Guardian : > The Tractatus is written as a s...

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/profound-or-banal-can-be-fine-line.html

 As note in the thread following: UPDATE:

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I've had a look at the Alex Jones Inforwar site a couple of times since yesterday, to see whether his (and his companies) being successfully sued by the parents of Sandy Hook has stopped him from...

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Dare I say it (sorry, Tim! - and Jason if you visit here) but the opening of Chris Uhlmann's comme ntary on the election helps confirm my allergy to high brow poetry as an artform.   I'm just no...

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/man-im-glad-uhlmann-is-retiring.html

I've seen a similar graph before, but never shared it here.   This version is from the New York Times, and I'm posting because of the Australian result: And so is this:  

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-pretty-remarkable-result.html

The clearest sign of the American Right being absolutely nuts is when the response to an Elementary school mass shooting is this: > Ken Paxton, the attorney general for Texas, told Fo...

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/everyone-knows-theres-nothing-new-to-be.html

I fit broadly into a "trans sceptic" category - in that I usually agree with most things that are said on the "TERF" side of the argument, and think there are some ridiculous extremes on the pro-...

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/very-mixed-feelings.html

A couple of tweets showing the problems that can be encountered on public transport in the US: You can clearly see the crack pipe being used in the video (as well as the cigarette being smo...

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/some-enforcement-needed.html

I thought he looked even worse on ABC News this morning.  Even on election night, I thought he looked kind of...sedated?   A bit bleary eyed, at least.  

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The Wall Street Journal - yes, another Murdoch owned disinformation outlet - has editorialised excitedly that Hilary Clinton has to be condemned by history for starting the "Trump-Russia collusio...

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Story old as time - at least if you define "time" as about 20 years - there's a large slab of conservatives (and even libertarians) who can't support the Liberals anymore because they hitched the...

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/there-is-no-arguing-with-these-people.html

I think the frequency of fire and flood crises all over the world over the last 3 years is consistent with this, and explains why the "Teals" and Greens did well this election:

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/suspect-this-is-true.html

Here's James Allen, in the Spectator (Australian edition, which has always been trash), complaining about the weekend election: > The only way to show your displeasure with your own�...

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/dumb-column-by-legal-academic.html

Barnaby Joyce quoted in the AFR today: > Barnaby Joyce has put the next Liberal leader on notice that he will > “bargain hard” for extra National Party shadow position...

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Here's the link. I liked the historical context given. 

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-good-post-on-carlson-and-great.html

Some highlights of the night: *  the sight of Tim Wilson getting really upset that his imagined  path to the  Lodge has been ended by a former ABC journalist.  Yay. *  The permanently sco...

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/murdoch-loses-election.html

From the ABC : Eight of the top 10 most left-leaning electorates are in capital cities, excluding Cunningham and Newcastle in New South Wales Five of the 10 most left-leaning electorates are in M...

http://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2022/05/information-for-my-reverse-pol-pot-plans.html

I grew up on the north side of Brisbane, and in 1967 the big local news was the opening of Toombul Shopping Centre , one of the very first large scale suburban shopping malls in Brisbane.   (I t...

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