Natural Selections

"I love music.In a previous incarnation, I found myself selling musical instruments to the 'General ..."

"If I were to combine my gigantic detestation of all forms of psychic codology with ..."

"Embarrassingly, I was involved in this conversation. It doesn't matter which half.How's things?Grand. Tipping away.All ..."

"I'm really not sure how to approach this one.Bertie reluctantly goes to the signing of ..."

"Maybe it's because the whole Catholic pro-life thing is still fresh in Irish minds that ..."

"I see Minister O'Dea has stepped up from merely defending the recent pay hikes for ..."

"After one whole calendar month, Darwin is back...And I half-expected to arrive home to a ..."

"Despite my bewilderment regarding people who think the bible was actually written by God, from ..."

"Despite Randi's devastating effort in 1991, Maureen is still plugging away.Particularly enjoyed from 4m:30s::"

"Following my post 'Twisted mind comes to Limerick, RANT' I've decided to expand on why ..."

"My recent and timely post about the 'paranormal' (Now, I've seen a lot of bullcrap, ..."

"A drummer with whom I sometimes work, caught the flu a while back and found ..."

"There's an idiotic psychic exploitation series currently running on NBC in the States called Phenomenon. ..."

"An older project of mine the Limerick Band Archive is languishing these days, though it ..."

"A group of guerrilla artists decided to grant a nobody band one night of stardom. ..."

"Ecuador's economy is f**ked. Things can't get much worse.So I say 'good on you,' President ..."

"Forget about all that Creationist nonsense, we now have the ultimate weapon in the War ..."

"As we all know by now, any criticism of chewing gum can get you into ..."

"We now live in the Eternal September.When the Usenet was just a small sophisticated group ..."

"I received an email today. It was a story called 'Angels' which tells the tale ..."

"Here is the dilemma.Imagine you have a child. Because you and the child's mother have ..."

"Our esteemed colleague Bock, with whom we don't always agree, has reaped the whirlwind for ..."

"This monster/spam thing is really lighting up our tiny blogosphere. It shows how a small ..."

"I laughed at the $100 cable, God forgive me I did. When I read about ..."

"When RTE finishes its DAB conversion, and when our terrestrial TV channels become free-to-air satellite, ..."

"What is the largest man-made object in the world? You're thinking Great Wall of China? ..."

"In response to Bock's clever Palindromic Play,I thought I'd post a little ditty that I ..."

"This endless Orwellian 'War on Terror' is worse than absurd. As has been often opined, ..."

"You may not be aware of this, but you are a Roman Catholic. Right here ..."

"Following in the ill-fated footsteps of Iraq, now the Saudis take fright and appear to ..."

"A popular genre of You Tube postings is the Police Brutality one. I came across ..."

"What in the name of buggery is all this about? A typical example from Friday's ..."

"I first had an idea to establish an atheist church in about 1987. It was ..."

"Back in June another blogger wrote about Limerick Traffic Gone Mad? He sees it as ..."

"Town ditches traffic lights to cut accidents | ReutersJust today, another town, this time in ..."

"BBC NEWS | Europe | Ireland is named 'best country'The Economist Magazine survey of 2004 ..."

"Many people know that the Federal Reserve Bank is a particular hobby-horse of mine. I ..."

"You've probably heard this one before: Why are there life jackets on an aeroplane but ..."

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"The Qualities Required by Musicians in a Group(in order of importance) Not a bollixA ..."

"The fact that our modern world celebrates style over substance is nothing new, experts place ..."

"I splashed out on a little toy recently, a Garmin GPS navigation device. Pretty nifty. ..."

"While I was driving through the town this afternoon I noticed (once again) a peculiar ..."

"Have you ever found yourself gritting your teeth and swallowing back curses while talking to ..."

"The singer/performer/actor Gordon Sumner, better known as Sting, seems to be almost universally disliked by ..."