You people always claiming the Irish as yours
I’m bemused[1] My eyebrows are raised in a very “wtf are you on” sort of way. The thing is, I’m well aware that some people don’t...
10 August 2006
The press is like the peculiar uncle you keep in the attic – just one of those unfortunate things
So it seems that the conflict between the rugby players and the meeja peoples isn’t actually resolved. Of course, there is nothing about it on the...
15 June 2006
I sell to leftists, and rightists. I sell to pacifists, but they’re not the most regular customers
You know that saying about truth being stranger than fiction? Well, look no further than County Laois, where seachtar schoolgirls have set themselves up as arms...
15 March 2006
The first shall be last, and the last… shall be first
Do you ever come across something and suddenly realise that this is exactly what the phrase “what the fuck” was made for? Today Guinness are testing...
9 February 2006
Naked Empire by Terry Goodkind
Book 8 in the Sword of Truth series Sometimes you know, people really make me wonder. The Sword of Truth series of books started off fine....
11 July 2004
Wolf Control
On November 4, 2003, the Alaska Board of Game and Department of Fish and Game decided to reinstitute aircraft-assisted killing as a method of suppressing wolf...
4 April 2004
The Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind
Terry Goodkind
A very wierd book, imo. Almost nothing at all about Richard, instead it is all about his half-sister Jenn.
I have such an ambivalent attitude towards this series. I quite enjoy reading them but the political and philosophical meaning behind the stories is almost the exact opposite of everything I would believe in.
In Wizard’s First Rule for example the basic premise was that people are stupid. That mob rule always wins out, and by being able to manipulate that you can guide people into believing almost anything.
9 January 2003