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Irish Bishops Meet Pope
The Irish bishops are in Rome meeting the Pope about their handling of sex abuse complaints. I wonder what they're wearing? Seriously.  What do they wear when people aren't looking? Do they still put on the dresses and the make-up, or will they all sit around in jeans and t-shirts with a few beers? What will Ratzo wear?  A ...

Dublin City Speed Limit
You just have to love Ireland, don't you?  We'll pass a law about anything. There's the Dublin City Council now, reducing the speed limit to 30 kph, or 18 miles per hour in the old money.  Apparently, the idea is to ease the flow of traffic around the city and to make it safer for cyclists.  ...

Bertie Ahern Rises From The Dead
I picked up the newspaper today.  The newspaper, you know?  That thing you used to read one time, and it was full of information called news? Hmm. So anyway, I picked up the Opinionsheet, and there's Bertie Ahern on the front page, wearing a pair of 3D glasses, and staring upwards vacantly with his big ignorant, uneducated ...

The Blind. The Halt and the Lame.
I was once forced to attend a disability awareness training session and it was like pushing heated needles through my eyes. Indoctrination. You WILL use the words we choose and you WILL NOT use the language of which we disappprove. We were instructed never to use the word " handicap", because it came from "cap in hand".  The ...

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Groundhog Year
The phone rang.  It was my old pal, Wrinkly Paddy. What's going on, Bock?  What the fuck is going on? No idea, I told him.  That's your department.  Why? I think I'm back in the eighties, he said.  Hairshirt budgets.  Strikes. Mass unemployment. Brendan Ogle. Emigration. I know.  It's not good. Not good? he shouted.  Not fucking good?? ...

Fucking Youtube Uploading Problems
I'm having trouble uploading videos to Youtube. Big problems. It won't fucking take them, which is pissing me off intensely since I have two fucking bands I want to put up and I can't. Are you having the same problem? Do you know some way I can track down the owners of Youtube and eviscerate them? Any suggestions along ...

Good King Wenceslas and Other Christmas Songs
They've started again,  Christmas songs in the supermarkets, as if any of us was feeling good will towards our fellow man.  As if, in fact, our hearts were not consumed by a hollow murderous rage  towards the political and financial boys' clubs that have bankrupted us and that now plan to drain us of all ...

Probing Politicians
I bumped into Parkenstein during the week. Wha'appen? I asked him. Well that's not true.  I actually said, How's it going? which is the local Limerick vernacular. Well, he said, it's interesting you should ask me that.  I was thinking of taking up a new line of business.  A new profession, so to speak. Really? I leaned forward, intrigued.  ...