We live in a strange time when an avuncular, by all accounts old-school politician, a mumbler with questionable educational and ethical background is held out to be the type of politician to aspire towards. Our political climate is one where it is a dangerous move to be associated more with policy than personality. I don’t […]
This might be the most callous thing I’ve ever written, and I’ve deleted and rewritten this sentence 4 times to find the right way, if such a thing exists, of saying I feel the response to the search for Madeline, the British girl abducted while on holidays, lacks perspective.
It strikes me that the work of […]
Godwacher pointed me in the way of this. A machine the uses radio waves to burn water. Now in essence what he is doing is electrolysis . I.e separating hydrogen and oxegen. With the Hydrogen burning. Indeed that in itself is not very interesting. And can be done in most school labs.
The interesting […]
Youngest person to have number one. Cleopatra Stratan with Ghita aged 3 she is Romanian and the song is very catchy.
And she does live concerts.
What were you doing at age 3. Her father writes the music and seemingly is quiet popular himself.
Bill Maher on the conservatives and France. Great stuff.
Hell he is so […]
So the most overused term of the past 3 days has to have been ‘squeeze’. Commentators in trying to put logic to the outcome of the election results determined that the public were consumed by the battle for Taoiseach and in feeling this was essentially the choice we were presented with, voted for one or […]
Monday night and the considerate people at RTE 2 are showing the final two episodes of the 3rd series of ‘Lost’ back-to-back. A series of ‘Lost’ can seem like an eternity and yet paradoxically little time has passed on the island. To try and encompass the list of issues that need to be wrapped up […]
In case you haven’t heard irishelection.com is the place to be for minute to minute updates on todays counts. If however you have a job and things to do, here is a link to a comprehensive RTE article setting out the first tallies of the day.
I am doing the Lotto tonight for fear the FG scaremongering is true and Fine Fail will get into bed with SinnFein. Not that I really needed that great an excuse but the money will come in handy for when I am deciding where to flee to on Saturday morning.
Plus it’s 6 million.
Folks, if recent history has thought us anything, it’s that every great man who wants to initiate change must have a sidekick by his side. Look at America where John F Kennedy had his brother Bobby when he brought “Camelot” to the White House in the early 1960’s. George W. Bush had Tony Blair when […]
The Times is carrying the story of a Sinn Fein representative in the new Stormont Assembly going to new lengths to enshrine his political convictions.
He makes pedantry look bad.
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