I find myself in the strange position of not wanting to support any of the political parties because I believe that the party system kills democracy, and even though some of the parties have talented members, they are well outnumbered and well outspoken within their own parties which means that they will struggle to achieve …
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General Election 2011
0 CommentsTicket touts have been around as long as I remember. In true capitalistic fashion, they buy low and they sell high, neatly filling a gap in the market for the last minute sale of tickets. However, given the amount of money that touts can make for a nights work goes into the thousands for expensive …
Stick It To The Touts
0 CommentsThe age old debate between the “DJ as artist” and “DJ as jukebox” rears its ugly head over again, this time over on Haido’s blog. “… i had a pair of girls come up to me and repeatedly ask for: pop music; songs with words; songs people know; songs people can dance to.” This happened …
DJ vs Punter
0 CommentsMachine Says Yes from FC Kahuna was one of the best albums of the last ten years, and amazingly ahead of its time. It came out on the short lived first run of the City Rockers label in 2002. After the temporary demise of the label, the album was picked up by Skint in 2003. …
FC Kahuna Are Back
2 CommentsI was sad to hear about the case of Gary Reinbach, 22, from Dagenham, who died earlier this week after developing cirrhosis of the liver. He began binge drinking at the age of 13 apparently. The story sparked a short debate about whether people with heavy drink problems should be eligible for liver transplants. With …
Drinking Yourself To Death (Aged 22)
0 CommentsKick up the ass time again. Every now and again you get bored of the music you listen to or the films you go to see or even the people you hang around with. It’s only natural, but it’s dangerous if you let the undertow take you down with it. Much better is a quick …
Green Shoots
0 Comments[YouTube thanks to Damien Mulley] I did a quick Twitter post last night when I noticed a story on RTÉ News online about two anonymous paintings of a naked Brian Cowen that had appeared in two Dublin galleries yesterday. Underneath a picture of one of the paintings a sub editor had made a pun about …
Brian Cowen Nude Paintings
4 CommentsI don’t know a lot about the man apart from he wrote and continues to write funny TV shows, and he runs a pretty popular blog called Why, That’s Delightful. Recently he posted a piece about an unforgiveably misguided piece in the Scottish Sunday Express that had to do with teenage survivors of the Dunblane …
Graham Linehan – When Blogging Works
0 CommentsI’d normally just ignore comments I don’t agree with from the Pope or other religious leaders, but, no matter what he believes personally or as the head of the Catholic Church, saying that AIDS “cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems” is only going to lead to more people …
The Pope And Condoms
0 CommentsIt’s a long held belief of mine that the party poliical system as it exists now doesn’t serve the people. It serves the parties themselves first, the politicians second, their cronies third, and the rest of us if we’re lucky. I understand how hard it would be to get a majority on difficult decisions if …