Tonight.  9pm. You'll be relieved to know that Battlestar Galactica returns tonight. Why will you be relieved?  Because this means I abandon all talk of politics, crime, rugby, drink, police [...]

Update: Someone put a link to this post on Craigslist under the heading Irish love to be poor, stupid, abusive, drunk, and violent.  I really can do without links from such [...]

The President of the Republic of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, is an immensely courageous, intellectual and influential figure in Africa.  He's a tremendously powerful and compelling man.  Yet Thabo Mbeki [...]

Brother Shawn, Father Sylvester and Brother Martin are from America.  Father Paulus is from Germany and Brother Seraphim comes from France.  These are the Franciscans who moved into Moyross, one [...]

His royal Bockness will hafta update a few plugins later, coz basically I couldn't be arsed. He's gone out so I've finally chewed through the chains and I'm OUTTA HERE. [...]

We'll be upgrading the site to WP 2.5 over the next few hours, so you might notice a few glitches and a bit of wonkiness. You might even notice the [...]

Things have been getting serious around here lately. Fuck it, let's have a song, and what better than my old pal, Linton Kwesi Johnson?

Henry McLaren killed his uncle with an axe last year. He thought that Jimi Hendrix had told him his uncle was the devil. He thought that Jack Dempsey, the boxer, [...]

Out and about in the countryside again.  Here's a few pics for you. More pics below the fold …