Crazy vs Religion
The Irish Times religious affairs correspondent seems like a nice enough chap and a decent writer/journalist too. He and Seán Moncrieff had a pleasant chat on Newstalk during the week, ranging over Catholicism, Christianity, the history of the Jews in Ireland, etc. Most entertaining.
Then Patsy said something which made me drop my monocle [...]
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, [...]
For my own reasons, I've casually been following the career of David Irving for many years. In case you don't know him, he's an 'historian' who's written thirty books about the Second World War, all of which suggest Hitler didn't know anything about the 'Final Solution' stuff that was going on.
A couple of years ago, [...]
Slack-jawed and gob-smacked. If you want to learn about Irish society, don't read the Irish Times–just listen to Liveline.
As you aware, Joe Duffy's radio guests, drawn from the plain people of Ireland, are legendary for their denseness. The Gift Grub parody about a woman who 'lost the end of her Sellotape' goes to the heart [...]
Saturday, January 26, 2008
This John Waters thing has gone far enough, though our thanks go to Tuppenceworth for embarrassing 'Fanny' Waters in about as many ways as possible without actually giving him a wedgie [listen to mp3], the Newstalk segment made for excruciating listening.
Not having a single original opinion himself, Waters comically blustered on endlessly about other people's [...]
