The Sky-God is angry. Grunt!
And you thought it couldn't happen here.
I had the misfortune to hear a radio interview a couple of weeks back that was both hilarious and terrifying at the same time. On this little isle of ours, up north in Belfast to be exact, the Minister for Arts and Culture has recommended [...]
Guess who?
Censorship seems to be the order of the day.
Carol Coleman, bless her, tried to squeeze the Muhammad Vs. South Park debate into about ten minutes of The Wide Angle on NewsTalk today . While inviting a brash comedian to debate a Dublin Muslim leader might have seemed like a good idea at the time, [...]
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Homeland Security claims that the famous 'no-fly list' has only about 2,500 names on it. The ACLU has estimated that the Terrorist Watch list now has more than 1M names attached. Somewhere in between is the number of people who get hassled at the airport for no good reason–other than their name being, say, 'Robert [...]
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Local TD's celebrate their expenses
Have you been reading about the TD's expense accounts? Of course you have, it's been saturating the papers for weeks. The media really love bashing our benevolent overlords, don't they?
I usually take a contrary view whenever newspapers get all 'Daily Mail' over an issue like this. I try to see behind [...]
The Justice Committee meets this afternoon to discuss the Defamation Bill, which includes the ridiculous blasphemy legislation. I sent this letter to every member of the committee.
Sir,
I object in the most strenuous fashion to the proposed anti- freedom of expression legislation, whereby a victimless crime such as blasphemy may become punishable by fines, etc. I [...]
From their Facebook invitation:
BLASPHEMY IS A VICTIMLESS CRIME
Carlton Castletroy Park Hotel
7:30pm Tues 16 June 2009
The Limerick meeting is the fourth of several being held around the country, organised by Atheist Ireland, an advocacy group for an ethical and secular Ireland, and co-hosted in Limerick by the Mid-west Humanists. Speakers will include
Michael Nugent, chair of Atheist [...]
In a room full of some of the world's most powerful people, one man dared to speak his mind. The scene was reminiscent of Mr Smith Goes To Washington, except in this case Jimmy Stewart was an adult trapped in the brain of a five-year-old child.
At a hearing of the U.S. House Subcommittee on Energy [...]
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Dictator-for-life Bush out of office? Invincible Darth Cheney in a wheelchair? A non-Caucasian as the most powerful person in the world? How long have I been asleep?
Let me point you to a particularly prescient article from The Onion of eight years ago entitled Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Over. It contains [...]
