Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-13

#BaconFilms A Beautiful Rind # #BaconFilms The Rindside # #BaconFilms Meet Joe Back # #BaconFilms Driving Miss Bacon # #BaconFilms Fry Hard, Fry Harder, Fry Hard With a Vengeance and Fry Hard 4.0 # #BaconFilms Mystic Rasher # #BaconFilms The Danish Connection #...

Reclaiming Elitism

The word Elite has been captured by the left just as our Union flag has been captured by the extreme right. Its use today, more often hissed or screamed out by people on the left of politics, conjures up a mishmash of concepts, almost exclusively assumed to be...

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-02-06

That’s it. Ireland escape. ITALY 11 – 13 IRELAND. Depression. # Ireland response is immediate and brilliant. O’Gara for the drop goal. Italy 11 – 13 Ireland # Bergamaco misses the conversion. Sean Cronin on at hooker to replace Rory Best. 4...

If I were Fine Gael’s election director…

Day 1: attempt viral hatchetjob on Cowen. Interspersed graphics of Bertie, Cowen and Martin. Martin and Cowen at Cabinet table. Lots of smiling. Graphic showing national debt growing on screen. Heartbeat background. Slowing to a flatline. Finishes with a fade to...

The case of the disappearing fáda.

Eagle eyed viewers have pointed out that the font I use for my headlines can’t handle fáda characters.  For someone writing disparagingly of others who don’t use the character or who misuse it as gaeilge, it’s obviously a bit embarrassing.  Thanks...