Natural Selections

"Boy the world sure moves on fast. If you haven't already seen Bush's reception at ..."

"Tribute to HMHB this Saturday night (15 Nov) Upstairs in Dolan's. A must-see. From the ..."

"More thoughtcrime stuff. Simply stupefying. Back in 2005, a high school junior in Kentucky was arrested ..."

"No candidate behind in the Gallup poll at the end of October has ever won ..."

"Riccardo Patrese pulls a terrible stunt on his poor wife, who to be honest looks ..."

"McCain is a pathological liar. Even Time Magazine (fer chrissakes) wrote about it. Here's a ..."

"How many times have we heard that famous phrase, as some perp is bundled into ..."

"According to the Irish Times, the chaplain in TCD seems to think that Father Ted ..."

"i.e. with a laugh track. This one just gets funnier as it progresses. ::"

"The 80's explained simply. (Keep watching it's not the original) ::"

"He's done his fair share of pedestrian comedy films (á la Rob Schneider and Martin ..."

" The cupboard is bare and the emperor has no clothes. They're out of real money. All ..."

"Remember when Tommy threw up and we killed that guy. And then Earl couldn't find ..."

"He's well known to other bass players, but it's probably time the world woke up ..."

"I'll just be watching him think. Not just play, but think. Jazz musicians will get ..."

" If you enjoy jazz piano, then I got you beat. No matter where in the ..."

" You may be aware that, because of a striking physical similarity, Tina Fey has returned ..."

"The current banking crisis and bailout in the United States is recast in the form ..."

"More of the same. This invented exchange neatly puts the Palin absurdity on display. "Governor Palin, ..."

"(Overheard and transcribed by a native speaker who unfortunately doesn't speak English) Braidlaoí: Duit tiúbroinn do ..."

"Ok you've heard enough about Palin, we all have. But I think this one is ..."

"This exact recording ((Big thanks to my brother for unearthing it--we wore out our VHS ..."

"Does this annoy you as much as it does me? The verdict is in... but ..."

"Yes, it's about programming and cubicle life but it's also about life and YOU. Lyrics ..."

"If you are in any doubt as to the danger Islam (or if you insist ..."

"With hurricane season on the way, my thoughts have turned to tropical cyclones (which is ..."

"Just a quick post to recommend an article in The American Scholar by William Deresiewicz. ..."

"The Swedish government has hit the nail on the head. They have announced plans to ..."

"I was reading another horror story about the TSA and Homeland Security, taking people's electronic ..."

"I have reported previously on the contretemps that had arisen from the United States having ..."

"Republican presidential nominee John McCain has approved a series of campaign ads called 'Pump' which ..."

"By now we've all seen the list of those webmsites who didn't give enough thought ..."

"As an exercise seemingly to show the wondrous simplicity of Microsoft Vista's speech recognition engine, ..."

"We made mention previously of Steve Balsamo's efforts on Jesus Christ Superstar, and of Ronnie ..."

"Usually whenever ICANN (the managers of all top-level domains) announces a new frontier, the Gold ..."

"Ah, the age old art of tapping. Patience, practice, Zen-like trance, repeat. There's certainly a ..."

" The Humans are Dead from Flight of the Conchords"

"The entire technical staff here at Darwin Plaza HQ are working overtime, with sleepless nights ..."

"Or the equivalent thereof ((Script: 'I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic--see if I ..."

"I reported someone for dangerous driving yesterday. I was driving back to Limerick along the Dublin ..."

" A fascinating 15 mins of insight and observation that somehow articulates the vague premonitions (not ..."

"They have higher murder rates than Limerick City. Not to mention New York, Boston, Los ..."

"I found and lost this girl sometime last year. Happily, she's back now at this ..."

"Theme includes rarely heard lyrics. ::"

"I read a copy of The Examiner over breakfast in a café this morning. I ..."

"According to Reuters a few days ago, banks in the U.S. are facing a systemic ..."

"Lawyers are required to defend their clients, regardless of whether they think they are guilty ..."

"As we're right in the middle of EV+A season in Limerick, I thought I'd mention ..."

"A recent political discussion on these pages prompted one commenter to claim: I think we (most ..."

"After reading Tuppenceworth's opinion that Fústar was robbed at the Irish Blog Awards, I perused ..."

"Sigh. I went to the trouble of downloading all these recently, so I was annoyed ..."

"Singing Kittens And they'll sing your name too (takes a while to load)."

" As a prelude to trading oil in Euro, Iran has opened its first oil ..."

"What with last week's walk outs, protests and finger-pointing over the U.S. telco surveillance bill, ..."

"A common dystopian vision of the future posits a world where men are obsolete, where ..."

"A fascinating sculpture overlooks Burnley in Lancashire. It is called the Singing Tree and it ..."

"Student moves to abolish student government. Worth a read.::"

"How would you describe the current political and economic situation in the United States?Would it ..."

"I get the impression that very few votes were required for a blog to appear ..."

"We're back to flogging that 'psychic' dead horse.Last week's edition of the BBC Watchdog programme ..."

"Not what you think.Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace SleepI hate sleep. It takes up ..."

"Time to inject a little pointless frivolity. Not quite as bad as LOL cats.::"

"You can earn some cash while making money for musicians at the same time. A ..."

"Here's a nice quotation:I am suspicious of this railroading of bills through our House of ..."

"€650,000 is not exactly Mickey Mouse money. It's also nearly twice the recommendation for the ..."

"Even though the Golden Globes, and perhaps the Oscars, won't be going ahead quite as ..."

"I did a cartoon double-take when I read this headline:Ireland has faith in touch-screen voting ..."

"I like to thank all my regular visitors for checking in on the blog often ..."