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Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012


Satire on Irish Left Review

The Satire section contains all satirical articles. As Lenny Bruce says: “Satire is tragedy plus time”.

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Especial School

Mourinho was give the Catalans a Brazilian!
I am sure you was all saw the Champions League semifinals match on Wednesday night, played in Spain’s seventh most important city, Barcelona (after Madrid, Seville, Valencia, Toledo, Oviedo, and Pontevedra). I am only now this morning come round from my stupendous party, which have been going on for [...]

Pet Sounds

CANTON GLE SERIES HOME THEATER SPEAKER SYSTEM ($3,046)
As tested, this system comprised a pair of GLE 490 floor-standing towers, a GLE 455 center speaker, a pair of GLE 420 surrounds, and an AS 85 SC powered subwoofer. The 1-inch soft-dome tweeter found in all the speakers employs a fabric dome, but this new-and-improved version also [...]

Only the Good Die Young!

Why did you take him, Lord? He was only 89.
Of all the terrible appalling news that there have been in recent weeks, such as the small earthquake in China, the volcano in irrelevant Iceland, the discovering of life on Neptune, the decision by Dublin Bus to change many of its routes, surely they are [...]

If It’s Tuesday, It Must Be the Jews!

That Outfit is Sooooooo Last Year!!
Until very recent, I was labour under the misapprehension that a Syllagism was a dessert with sperm in, but it transpire that, for the first time, I was wrong. Is not a syllagism, but a syllogism, and what it is is a logical argument which is construct in such a [...]

A Las Barricadas en Lippy

The whole world is going through tough times right now, requiring women everywhere to demonstrate their grit, nerve, courage, flair, and determination. And just because we here at Gorgeo.us believe that it’s every woman’s right to look her best all the time, to do whatever she wants whenever she wants, to define for herself what [...]

Book Worms

Every year, to coincide with its national conference, the American Library Association names its American Librarian of the Year. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of this award, the in-house journal decided to locate the whereabouts of the first 25 winners:
1985: Keith Hingis. Died 1997. Froze to death on the Matterhorn.
1984: [...]

The Hole She Bangs!

Is Not How It Looks. She is Just My Assistant
The appalling latest news in the world of celebrity “entertainment,” which was come out of the blue only this week, is the confession from Latin heart-thrub and all-round croner Randy Martin that he has been leading a double-life all this time. In secret, and behind everyone’s [...]

UNLIKELY RADICALS: IRISH POST-PRIMARY TEACHERS AND THE ASTI, 1909-2009, by John Cunningham

Ostensibly an official history, John Cunningham’s study of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI), and its relationship with the education system, also touches on four key elements of Irish society over the past 100 years: religion, class, politics and economics. It looks at the changes in Ireland since the foundation of the association [...]

Have You Seen This Dog?

He is not easy to miss!!
I am think I was mention last week in my post that my next-door neighbours, the Mengeles, have been in a state of self-impose quarantine for the last six weeks. But I was not specify the reasons, which is that they were carrying out very important secret domestic science esperiments. [...]

At Home, At Work, At Play.

The intensification of the working day is familiar to anyone trying to keep their heads above water in the current cut-throat grind-teeth bump-knee chew-tongue finger-elbow climate brought on by head office’s opportunistic trouser-slashing under the prepuce of the recession. There’s nothing that any of us can do about it but smirk and bear it, but [...]

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Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father:

Tracing the Decisions

That Shaped the Irish Economy,

by Conor McCabe

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