Throwing good after bad…
I wrote a draft of this post at the start of the year but eventually shelved it because I thought it mightn't hold much interest for the Plain People of Ireland. But now here we are, coming to terms with the horror of impending financial disasters as they spread across the Eurozone–and [...]
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 [...]
Childer's Road – 2019 AD
As I avoided the races by driving through some of the less well-known (to me) routes of Galway city centre last week, I was appalled by the number of new traffic lights that seem to have sprung up at every intersection, often midway on a stretch between two other sets of [...]
Jesus is my coach
Is your God angered by baseball? Do you feel that the Supreme Being should immediately strike dead anyone caught enjoying themselves on the 10th of April? Should the entire world come to a halt to observe the paschal triduum?
It's a such simple thing people. Easter Sunday is simply the first Sunday following [...]
Me, clowning around with Bock
Well, I've just had an interesting phone call from an American lady called Karen Evans from the N.C.S.D.
It sounded pretty much like a telemarketing call to me. Karen told me she wanted to conduct a brief telephone interview to 'confirm some of their research.'
She knew my name and home address and [...]
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 [...]
People pointlessly milling up and down Wall Street
Steve Forbes (you probably know the magazine?) has an opinion on what caused the financial crisis, or as it's now known, the 'economic reality.' His theory is one I hadn't heard before, and let's face it Forbes knows his stuff.
Have you every heard of mark-to-market or fair value [...]
My stimulus package
If you've been criticising U2 for using standard business practices to increase their profits, then you have to ask yourself some pretty hard questions.
If U2 are morally bound to pay the maximum taxes here in Ireland, why exactly should that be the case? To help our poor old Ireland? As anyone who has [...]
