Irish support for Obama

Whilst Ireland certainly isn’t the only place in the world with love for the Junior Senator from Illinois, it’s painfully apparent that, should I wish to book a pro-McCain election night party, the tiny (and excellent) Ould Plaid Shawl pub in Kinvara, Co....

Councillor from Carlow displays eagle eye for the law

Amusing (or frightening) article in the Carlow Nationalist from Friday 19 September.  It seems the opening of a ‘Head Shop’ (read terrible place for desperate morons to go in search of legal highs) in Ireland’s south eastern county town of Carlow has...

Smiling makes music sound better

Okay, ridiculous title though it was, the premise will hold true nonetheless. Try listening to any standard in ear headphones with a wide beaming grin. You’ll look ridiculous, but it’ll sound better. Probably opens up the ear canal or something. Ho...

How the GOP will allow themselves to be beaten

Last post, I made the suggestion that the Dems need to change their campaign style to bring Joe Biden and Barack Obama together, to start making big announcements early and chart their own course and ignore McCain and Palin.  With Palin being quite as awful as she is...

How the Democrats will pwn themselves.

I’m a McCain supporter, but not necessarily a Palin supporter.  More importantly, I think I’m in political love with whoever decided to try the Palin adventure; it was ballsy, it was just dripping with panache, and it made the news networks, even those who...