Dublin Opinion

I only put it up because it was on Who Is IOZ, and Who Is IOZ is so hot right now.

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Here is a guest post by Gerry Burke, which he suggested could be a follow-up piece to the Palin stuff posted below. Gerry has written several pieces for Irish Left Review.
“If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.”
- Kathleen Parker, a National Review online columnist and a former Sarah Palin […]

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I’m afraid I’m about to again demonstrate my adhesion to the Western Death Cult that comes down to me from my maternal side. During the summer my wife* ordered a French translation of a collection of short stories by an American writer by the name of David Foster Wallace. The title, ‘Brief Interviews with Hideous […]

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So says Manuel Estimulo after the glorious win for Spain in the final of Euro 2008. The picture, in case you’re wondering, is of goal scorer Fernando Torres. Or as Manuel puts it…
Si, is the former Atlético Madrid moron and now Scouse bastard Fernando Torres, who score the winning goal for Spain last weekend in […]

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DISCLAMER : A week old post I couldn’t finish/put up due to dodgy French wiring having frazzled my ADSL modem - whenever will they let those competent Polish electricians in ??
The virulence of visual satire on the continent, or at least on the Latin part of it, has already come up on this blog. Being […]

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Sinead Gleeson is always going on about how she loves John Crace’s Digested Read in the Guardian. This is where the witty John retells the bones of a recently published book in the author’s style managing somehow to squeeze it all into a couple of pithy paragraphs.
Seeing as you can’t open a newspaper or […]

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Thanks to my friend Armando for this one.
(Very) roughly translated, the bits at the start read:
“Learn English with the Generalisimo! An easy and efficient method.
Read out loud the subtitles, along with the caudillo .
The centre for the study of “Unfortunate Humans” guarantees you that, at the end of this video, you will enjoy […]

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I know this has already been on Pirate Election and Shiver me Cedars, but I just had to mention a most impressive new blog, Irish Pirate Review.
It’s about time that honest, thieving pirates finally ganged together and took to ship to take on the oppressive imperial overlords of the sea, and then through relentless […]

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Thanks to Seán Baite for this one.

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Sometimes, just sometimes, ideology can be piss-funny. I mean, intentionally so, not in an Eoghan Harris piss-funny kind of way. The following is taken from Wikipeida:
La Dialectique Peut-Elle Casser Des Briques?, in English, “Can Dialectics Break Bricks?”, is a 1973 Situationist film produced by the French director René Viénet which explores the resolution of conflict […]

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