Fucking the Man
Does rock no longer concern itself with bothering "The Man"? With frying The Man's tiny little square brain? I mean, it used to be...
Political/Social Category
Images that Make Me Want to Cry: 4 – These are my Bitches
Men. They're gas! Charming rogues one and all. They love WKD ads and Gladiator. Beer and war. Top Gear and Nuts (and hot lesbian twins)....
Big Ed Loves Mona (or “The Adventures of Balloon Boy”)
Today (or yesterday), somewhere in America (I can't be bothered to check the details) a saucer-shaped balloon flew through the sky...
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 5 – Think of the Children!
While the weary lamp-posts of the country already heave 'neath the strain of alarmist, reductive, populist, faux-chummy, batshit and...
Hailing Jane
In a memorable exchange with his Jesus-lovin' father-in-law, Larry David (the "fictional" Curb Your Enthusiasm version) speculated...
Hard Boiled and Soft Core: Tastes of Ould Ireland
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With the Ryan Report's revelations continuing to dynamite the (already shaky) moral foundations of pious ould Catholic Ireland,...
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 4 РThe Watery Adventures of Toir̩asa Ferris (Sinn F̩in)
Early yesterday morning – as the wife the daughter, and the husband/father (i.e. myself) strode (and rolled) towards the Milk...
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 3 – Caroline Simons (Libertas)
Our third slice of “Debafflement� sees the series move from local level to European, and from Shannonside to the banks of the Liffey....
God is nothing but a big stupid over-sensitive man with a beard that lives on a cloud
Of all the many wild 'n' wacky notions entertained and promoted by orgainsed religions, few can be as amusingly bonkos as the idea...
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 2 – John Cronin
The "Campaign Poster Debaffler" next focuses its critical gaze on the kindly physog of Cllr. John Cronin. Here he be:
First impressions...
The Campaign Poster Debaffler: 1 – Fine Gael’s Cormac Hurley
As local/European elections loom into view (and candidates hock their wares & crush their policies into tasty sound bite form)...
Pissing (once more) on Bishops: Blasphemers Beware!
So it's another of those boring old Wednesdays. You yawn your way apathetically through the morning. 11 o'clock arrives on time –...
The Great Picturegate Postcard Exhibition
The response, thus far, to my request for nudey postcards of An Taoiseach has been splendid & encouraging. Allan, in particular,...
Filthy Durty Postcards: Badgers, Blu-Tack & Picturegating
This lunchtime, while the rest of you stuffed your faces with fancy sangwiches, I went on a not-very-dangerous, undercover, guerilla...
Filthy Durty Postcards: 2 – Spineless RTE Bastards
5 minutes after reading Suzy's post on nekkid Brian Cowen "picturegate" (and RTÉ's craven and vomit-inducing climb down) I distilled...
