I kinda know who this guy is. Whatever his politics, this pose is - for me - the gesture that means "Do NOT trust anything I am saying. Ever. About anything." That might be unfair to him. I really don't know his politics or reputation at all. But the insincere pose.....

This is not the reaction I get. People just think I wanted to say hi to the dog.

It's funny. And at the same time it's not funny. Poor dog. Once lived near someone who kept their German Shepherd outdoors all the time in a small blank space. The poor dog barked and eventually went mad. Apparently what they were doing wasn't cruel enough to count.

Most are entirely unpaid. Ours always were. I always hoped they were getting something out of the deal too.

Watching rain fall out over Dublin Bay. Clear skies above me, only a few miles away.

The Decline and Fall of the Tuscan Empire

My bad analogy of the week.

The Hitchhicker's Guide to the M25.

Gulliver's web browsing.

Pretty much a 100% guarantee that anyone insisting that Ireland is still in the British Isles will get to this point sooner or later. Sometimes sooner, sometimes later. Ireland is not in the British Isles.

Irish is a good language for poetry. Now if there's a version of "Cill Chais" around, I'd love to have that one. A great poem. Sad, but great.

Whatever about McDonald's, I did notice the other day in Tesco that mince was an absolutely startling price.

Luddite post of the day. Also, quite possibly, the intellectually incoherent luddite post of the day.