Month: March 2009
A Combat Brigade By Any Other Name
'Despite President Barack Obama's statement at Camp LeJeune, North Carolina Feb. 27 that he had "chosen a timeline...
Friday Choon: Depeche Mode’s ‘Wrong’
Oh yes. Depeche Mode's new single 'Wrong' from the forthcoming album 'Sounds of the Universe'. They got their...
Festival of Fools, Dublin, 1st April 2009
Calling all Fools! The Festival of Fools returns! Celebrating all that is foolish and remembering, of course, the...
While RTE is Craven and Supine before Power, Blather Won’t Let you Down!
How nauseating it was to read that Ireland's national broadcaster RTE has gone crawling to that most hated...
Brian Cowen: The Naked Taoiseach (updated 7/04/2009)
Picturegate or Cowengate?: The Emperor has no clothes, it seems... We're a big fan of pranks here on...
Greenpeace activists challenge Japanese government censorship
A recent article in the satirical newspaper The Onion satirised US government censorship with a headline CIA Realizes...
The Campaign to Save Norway’s Coral Reefs
If I mention the words "coral reef", it's understandable that it will evoke an image of azure waters...
Christopher Walken and Twitter
I think it takes considerable mastery of language to deliver deadpan humour on the web - so no...
Obama Gives Paranoid Notice
'Notice of March 11, 2009--Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect To Iran'.
A Kidnap Victim Speaks (updated)
'MI5 directly colluded in the savage 'medieval' torture in Morocco of Binyam Mohamed, the Guantánamo inmate who was...