In a petulant, and completely unreasonable, fit of pique I told Joe the builder to fuck off, and then I stood there looking at a half-completed kitchen and wondering what I was going to do. But hey, what else would I do in a crisis? I went to the pub, where I bumped into my [...]

Jesus, they breed their criminals tough in Dublin.
There’s Martin Foley, now, a violent thug and well-known underworld figure. (Isn’t it amazing how they’re all called figures?)
Anyway, Martin gets riddled with fucking bullets AGAIN! Again, I tell you, at 55 years of age. For fucksake, is nothing sacred? Wouldn’t you think, now [...]

So it’s all down to one man, is it? This fellow. Jérôme Kerviel.
All his fault that the world’s economic system can be brought to the point of collapse.
He’s a rogue trader, you see, but not just any old rogue. Oh no. Jérôme Kerviel is a very special rogue indeed. [...]

This is always a ludicrous night, and not to be missed. If you’re in Limerick on the 7th February and you don’t go, it’s for one of these reasons (tick your choice):

you have no sense of humour
you have no money
you’re dead.

Go and support a good cause, you fuckin bastard.

Jesus, the bums lost again.  How many consecutive defeats is that?  I’d say about eight hundred.  They’re now firmly stuck second from the bottom of the league table, 24 points adrift of the leaders and well positioned for relegation.
We’ll have to organise a trip over there immediately to stiffen their resolve.  I must get on [...]

A giant cloud of counterfeit dollar bills and cocaine hangs over Las Vegas as the huge Monte Carlo Hotel Casino goes up in flames.

As firefighters battled the raging blaze, several hundred men with questionably thin moustaches were seen to run from the building carrying briefcases.
Emergency services brought dozens of eighteen-wheeler field casinos to the disaster, [...]

Suppose you conquer a country through violence, ethnic cleansing and destruction of villages.
And suppose you drive out a peaceful people so that you can steal their homes and their farms.
And suppose you herd them together into a tiny strip of land, causing one of the highest population densities in the world.
And suppose you force them [...]

Well, Bullet, I said. Are you feeling hungry at all?
Starving! said Bullet.
Hmm, I replied. That’s a pity, cos there’s nothing in the house.
Nothing?
Not a damn thing. The fridge is empty. The shelves are bare.
Bullet regarded me with that gentle, reproachless gaze that says Oh well, there’s always toenails.
Tell you what, I [...]

There isn’t a huge difference between the two, it seems.
Scientology has no coherent scientific basis. Neither does homeopathy.
Scientology exploits credulous, needy people for profit. So does homeopathy.
Scientology relies on fake-scientific jargon to baffle you. So does homeopathy.
Scientology can’t survive scientific scrutiny. Neither can homeopathy.
So far so good. No surprises there.
But suppose I told you that [...]

For those who have never heard of John Waters (and they are many) let me explain. This is a fellow who has an enormously inflated sense of his own journalistic importance and infallibility.
No. He isn’t the Pope, but he’s the next best thing, having once screwed Sinead O Connor. This unhappy coupling, whence a child [...]