Chavez is continuing the become the dictator people always said he would be.
Some private companies are also concerned about President Chavez’s intention to make them allow their employees time during the working day to study socialism.

1984 anyone?

Little Miss Sunshine is the dark horse of the Oscar race. Along with Ryan Gosling’s nomination for Best Actor, its nomination for Best Picture has had a crest of eyebrows furling across the entertainment world. Equally, its won Best Picture at the Producers Guild Awards and Screen Actors Guild Awards, wins not to be disregarded [...]

The blog awards voting is open. and we here and Irish Election have been nominated in a few places for some reason. For best blog post. Two posts by me (here and here on the Dublin Riots have gotten a nod. Here and Irish Election got a node for best political blog. Irish election for [...]

And some interesting thoughts on the matter.

In this country I think it would be great to have someone fact check the media. A new group says that they are going to do this. Media Byte. Alas how ever they are not fact checkers they are propagandist. So I will have a look at this article on corrib gas.
the most generous fiscal [...]

My first cinema experience of a Scorcese movie was ‘Bringing out the Dead’. As ever reviews and commentary harked backed to Scorceses’ glory days. ‘Bringing out the Dead’, a brooding, reflective piece following Nicholas Cage’s loner, New York based ambulance driver inevitably drew comparison with ‘Taxi Driver’. I was impressed with the movie though the [...]

Inspired by this. Here is the petition.
To: Dail Eireann.
We believe that what is good enough for children should be good enough for politicians. Thus we believe that as Enda Kenny wants to bring in Drug testing for secondary school children, that all politicians in the Dail should also submit themselves to drug testing.
Sign the [...]

Anyone that can take the piss out of themselves is ok in my book.
The add the launched the mac.

Michael Jackson 1993.

I posted this over on Irish Election. Along with an email I sent enda.

One of the stories in the papers around this time last year was that cocaine was found in the toilets in Leinster House. Yet as of yet Enda Kenny has not called for the drug testing of all members of the Dail. [...]

Serving my own selfish ends the aspect of the recent widespread coverage of the progression of climate change that caught my attention is that the Great Barrier Reef is within 10 years of becoming functionally extinct. I never got to see the Coral Reef on a brief sojourn to Australia late last year when I [...]