Friday, Jan 27th 2012
During the “Fuck You Emmet Stagg, Fuck You” exchange in the Dail last Friday, the following was said:
Deputy Paul Gogarty: It is most unparliamentary language and I now withdraw it and apologise for it but I am outraged that someone dares question my sincerity on this issue.
I do not like what has to be done, [...]
A Souvenir of Milan!
You may not have see in the news because the liberal communists who run the media deliberately downplay the kerfuffle, but well-known Italian paramour and sex god Silvio Berlusconi was dreadfully hospitalized the other day in a horrific accident/assault. I am say accident/assault because it is still not clear precisely what was [...]
Perry Anderson | Acting in the Name of Integral Nationalism
Perry Anderson’s much anticipated book on Europe, New-Old World is available now from Verso, although it was supposed to be published in May 2009 it only became available in November. It’s a meditation on the history of the European community, not in the sense of the [...]
As another Summit has come and gone, and EU leaders continue to grapple with the issue of Turkey’s accession to the European Union, I want to focus on two related events that took place simultaneously in Turkey and Cyprus, towards the end of last week.
a. On the night of Thursday Dec. 10th, a very professional [...]
Part 3 of the 100 Best Films of the Decade. Part 1 and Part 2 have already appeared. Only two to go.
The Life Aquatic…With Steve Zissou (Wes Anderson – USA, 2004)
People either love or hate Wes Anderson, though I find I have a foot in either camp. I initially detested The Royal Tennenbaums before [...]
t r u t h o u t | Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability
With the cruelest of ironies, zombie politics and culture invoke life as they promote death and human suffering. For example, zombie politicians who oppose the welfare state, health care reforms, investing in a quality education [...]
Zombie Zeitgeist | Why Undead Corpses Are Dominating at the Box Office
"In fact, I'll go out on a severed limb and take it further: If zombies specifically represent the apocalyptic downsides of immortalized mindlessness, then today's zombie zeitgeist is not merely a result of scary quandaries created by stupidity. It is a reaction to both [...]
Bad science | Climate change? Well, we’ll be dead by then
"Among all these, reigning supreme, is the "zombie argument": arguments which survive to be raised again, for eternity, no matter how many times they are shot down. "Homeopathy worked for me," and the rest.
Zombie arguments survive, immortal and resistant to all refutation, because they do [...]
Trade Union TV from Budget day at the Dail
Protests took place all day on December 9th 2009 outside the Dail while the Fianna Fail / Green / Independents’ voted to savage public services and the pay of Public sector workers while letting the rich off. Hundreds took part in rolling protests through the day and [...]
Below are recordings of some of the comments and questions that came from the audience at Thursday’s meeting on the budget (see below or here). Those making comments include Paul Dillon (Labour Party), Tom Redmond (CPI), Scott Millar (journalist and historian), Mick O’Reilly (ATGWU retired) and one man whose name I did not catch.
