Japan tsunami
No politics, entertainment, business or whatever, and for the obvious reasons ... Certainly this is a sad day with the news about one of the biggest earthquakes (8.9, off Honshu,…
BlastFurnace
Double contempt, cheap shot
Technical issues have kept me off this forum for a few days .. so I'm going to comment on a couple of things at once -- the double contempt finding…
Breaking Through (the bs of questionable campaigning)
Courting the "ethnic vote" is a tradition in any democracy. But there's a right way and a wrong way to do it. The Cons sending out an action plan on…
Ireland hits the polls, and the wall
In terms of politics, this is truly an earthquake.True, the top two parties in Ireland are pretty much Tweedledum and Tweedledee (they're both centre right) but after all the ballots…