Opinion Dominion

I hadn't noticed physicist Neil Turok before, but this lengthy interview with him posted recently on Youtube is really good.  Well, at least if you have some background idea as to the problems w...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/cosmology-and-inflation-revisited.html

I had been wondering who Republican speaker Mike Johnson was reminding me of when I have seen him talking to the press recently, and yesterday it came to me. I reckon he speaks and conducts hi...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/politician-reminds-me-of-politician.html

I don't know who is behind this Youtube channel , and I also note that it is not putting out new stuff very often now, but I was impressed with this explanation about how the 3 key religions in C...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/back-to-asian-religion.html

I've always been skeptical of the doom-sayers regarding advanced, self aware, AI being a threat to humanity:  sure, there may be smart people worrying about it, but as we all know, you can be ve...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/in-which-i-have-shower-thoughts-about-ai.html

She also retweeted this:

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/if-only-i-controlled-academic-funding.html

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/short-bromance.html

Made this pork soup last night (more usually called bak kut teh - but boy, do I have trouble remembering that, for some reason - often wanting to write or say it as "tuk" instead of "kut")...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/soup-noted.html

I'm surprised that I didn't know about this particular Chinese goddess before.  (Although, I think it fair to say, there is very little general knowledge in the West about the complicated mixtur...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/chinese-goddess-explained.html

I can strongly recommend this review of short term British PM Liz Truss's book at the Independent.    I also thought this sketch about her was very funny:

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/if-you-enjoy-scathing-reviews-of.html

From CNA (but it's probably everywhere - I haven't checked):   > Brazilian police have arrested a woman who tried to take out a bank > loan for a man she was pushing in a...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/full-marks-for-effort-i-suppose.html

*     IF ONLY I RAN THE FUNDING OF RESEARCH GRANTS, PART 1:    This is receiving a lot of mocking on Twitter, and when you go read the article at the link , it's thoroughly deserved:...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/various-controversies.html

I hope this article at Slate remains un-paywalled - it reads as a pretty damning indictment of the self interested partisanship of the conservative judges on the US Supreme Court.

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/conservative-judges-worry.html

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/ha.html

Oh, good grief. The New York Times has a story about its polling showing that, on most aspects, registered voters' opinions on Trump's time as president has improved!    What I find partic...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/if-you-want-some-depressing-reading-try.html

A bunch of tweets of note about Trump's rally on the weekend:  

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/trapped-in-hopeless-doom-loop-of.html

Another good video from Religion for Breakfast.  (Actually, they are all good - even if the title indicates its a topic you're not particularly interested in, if you start watching them they are...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/religion-and-politicsspace-and-elon.html

 I just thought this one looked good in black and white... Oh no.  It looks OK on my laptop, but not my phone.  Must work on that...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/random-photo.html

Sandy, by the way, promised recently that she was pretty much leaving Twitter because it had become too toxic.

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/a-real-professional.html

In other "MAGA people live in a fantasy world and are supported in that continually by Fox News and other Right wing media", I liked this summary of one issue by the Washington Post's Philip B...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/what-nut.html

I see that a major review into transgender policy with respect to children and teens has just been released in England, and confirms a major realignment towards a more conservative approach to "g...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/transgender-pushback-continues.html

The Guardian has a lengthy interview up with the always affable and likeable Michael Palin.   I always get the impression he's never made an enemy, or lost a friendship, in his entire life.  A...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-very-likeable-palin.html

What, I haven't posted today?  Let me go back to a New York Times article from last week , about the increasingly obvious Christofascist nature of his rallies: > Long known for his improv...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-problem-is-if-you-ignore-him-he.html

It seems that the Washington Post has taken a very active line in publicising research indicating that marijuana use can be harmful to health:  such that I wondered whether Bezos himself doesn't...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/an-experiment-leads-to.html

I mentioned in my recent post about the Peranakan Museum in Singapore that I hadn't realised that betel chewing had been a big thing in Singapore - and that in fact you can still buy the betel le...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/just-in-case-you-are-missing-your.html

Frank Bruni, writing in the New York Times, has so many amusing zingers in his column on RFK Jnr running for President, it's hard to pick the best.  But here are some: > The hubris. The na...

https://opiniondominion.blogspot.com/2024/04/nice-sarcasm.html