‘Tis The Season…
Posted on October 31, 2007 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
‘Halloween’ by Afi (Misfits cover).
This is going to be the last video I post for a week or so, since I’m receiving complaints about my blog degenerating into a YouTube/Daily Show/Colbert Report clip show.
Last Night’s Daily Show
Posted on October 30, 2007 - Filed Under American Politics, Funny | Leave a Comment
Well, some of it anyway.
Colbert ‘08
Posted on October 29, 2007 - Filed Under American Politics, Colbert '08, Funny | Leave a Comment
Forget John McCain, this blog is now throwing its weight foursquare behind Stephen Colbert’s audacious South Carolina primary campaign.
Attending a South Carolina campaign rally on ‘Stephen Colbert Favourite Son Day’.
Here’s a link to a BBC story about the rapid growth of a Facebook group dedicated to the Colbert campaign.
New Provisional Driving License Laws
Posted on October 27, 2007 - Filed Under Ireland | 3 Comments
Are there going to be any ‘L’ plates on cars from Tuesday onwards? What learner driver is going to drive around unaccompanied with an ‘L’ plate on show? It will be tantamount to asking for a €1,000 fine.
Staunton Fired
Posted on October 24, 2007 - Filed Under Football | 2 Comments
At last!
According to this BBC News story Liam Brady is interested in the job, although David O’Leary is the current favourite to replace the hapless Staunton. Either would be a vast improvement, but I’d hate to see Brady take charge, solely because it would probably mean the end of his role as a RTÉ pundit. [...]
More Stephen Colbert Interviews
Posted on October 24, 2007 - Filed Under Funny | Leave a Comment
On David Letterman’s show plugging his new book.
Part of an older, more serious interview.
He’s out of character in both of them.
Stephen Colbert on Meet The Press
Posted on October 23, 2007 - Filed Under American Politics, Funny | Leave a Comment
Terrible audio, but well worth watching nonetheless. Tim Russert gives him hell, or at least as tough a time as he’d give any of the other candidates. He must have taken this pumpkin jibe to heart:
No Comment
Posted on October 22, 2007 - Filed Under No Comment, WTF? | Leave a Comment
Found via Andrew Sullivan’s usually far more serious blog.
Kaczynski Defeated in Polish Elections
Posted on October 21, 2007 - Filed Under Europe, Politics | Leave a Comment
One half of the Kaczynski comedy duo has suffered a well-earned thrashing in today’s Polish general election, with his Law and Justice party (31%) coming in well behind of Civic Platform (44%). Perhaps this result will teach Law and Justice politicians to conduct themselves with a bit more civility and decorum on the European stage.
BBC [...]
A Swiss Election-Winning Poster
Posted on October 21, 2007 - Filed Under Europe, Politics | 1 Comment
The Swiss People’s Party (SVP) has won the largest share of the vote in the country’s recent general election, taking about 27%. The election campaign focused on immigration, with the SVP proposing measures such as deporting foreigners who commit crimes and forbidding the construction of minarets. While I think that you can argue for or [...]
Not to Pull Your Halo Down…
Posted on October 21, 2007 - Filed Under Music | Leave a Comment
… around your neck and tug you off your cloud.
‘The Noose’ by A Perfect Circle.
New Daily Show Website
Posted on October 19, 2007 - Filed Under American Politics, Funny | Leave a Comment
Link.
Stephen Colbert’s presidential campaign has spawned a new website too, although it’s purely perfunctory. I wonder if he’ll be allowed to participate in the South Carolina presidential primary debates if he goes ahead and registers as an official candidate.
Let’s Hear It For George W. Bush
Posted on October 18, 2007 - Filed Under American Politics, China, Funny, International Relations, Politics | 1 Comment
Yes, he may be one of the worst US presidents ever, but he’s the first to have the courage to meet publicly with the Dalai Lama, and this at a time when Sino-American are of unprecedented importance. Of course, some people can’t resist taking shots at him even when he does something good:
Battle Plan; Recruits Needed
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under Film | 2 Comments
The plan for tomorrow night’s campaign is simple:
1. See Mr Hands: The Movie (otherwise known as Zoo) in the Kino cinema at 9.
2. Go drinking (as in hardcore drinking).
3. Get drunk (as in China drunk).
4. … whatever.
So who’s with me?
Update: Forget it, I’m way too tired, and it seems that few are interested in this [...]
Today’s Doonesbury
Posted on October 17, 2007 - Filed Under Funny, Media, Politics | Leave a Comment
I know that I have right at all to do this, but I feel obliged to promote today’s Doonesbury strip given the unfathomably high number of people I know who ritually pass over it in the Irish Times without a second glance.
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