Mother Teresa checked her watch for the hundredth time. It was dark in the tunnel. Dark, cold and damp.
Where the fuck are they? she half-muttered, half-snarled.
The old nun revved the big Mack diesel into a steady, brooding growl.
Come on, whispered Mother Teresa. Come on!

Somewhere in the city, a man and woman [...]

Here’s what Dick Cheney said in 1994 about invading Iraq.

(Thanks to Grainne for the link.)
Meanwhile, here’s General Anthony Zinni’s take on how he saw things in the lead-up to the invasion. American Generals don’t come any more senior than this guy.

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Mr Darwin has finally launched his stupendous organ on the world.
I bumped into him last night in a filthy illegal drinking den. He was playing a stainless steel Fender acoustic guitar that looked like an attack frying pan and howling the words of a song that seemed strangely familiar, yet somehow not quite right.
What’s [...]

Since we’re on a roll with this religious thing, let me just remind you that today is the Feast of the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist.
See? Those Catholics will celebrate anything as long as there’s a few drinks involved, though I’m not so sure about the Baptists. I don’t know if [...]

I see the Vatican has started its own airline.
Ratzair, I believe they’re calling it.
The first flight was yesterday and went from Rome to Lourdes, but they’ll also serve Fatima, Mount Sinai and Santiago.

Ja, confirmed a spokesman for the Vatican, We haff the plan for den Heiligeflug to alles the Heilige shrines in der Welt. [...]

Did I mention I was going away for the weekend?
No?
Well that’s because as usual I was so disorganised I didn’t know it myself.
We all went out on the water on Saturday, down the the estuary, at the little County Limerick village of Glin. (A place with a surprisingly dark history, but I’ll go into that [...]

This is a lovely gentle site based in Limerick City.
It’s a site for girls and has almost nothing in it that relates to me as a man, but I still like it, even though I tend to take the piss out of them a lot.
Go and visit Style Treaty
They’re nice. Say hello to Maz.

Horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, clairvoyance, mediums and tarot are the new Irish superstitions, according to Seán Brady, Archbishop of Armagh. (You might remember Seán from the open letter I wrote to him a while back – have a look at the end of this page).
You can see how he’d be upset, can’t you?
Sean would [...]

You know what a reasonable, tolerant man I am except when I have to oppress idiots who disagree with me. Everyone knows that I’ll put up with anything except idiocy and intolerance.
So why has this turban thing got me so confused?
A Sikh is refused membership of the Garda reserve because he won’t take [...]

Wrinkly Joe sends us this. It’s fucking great.
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