Outsourced Memory and Topical Fulminations for the Money-Got Mechanic Age
Just been watching the first episode of Channel 4’s “The Bible – A History“, in which Howard Jacobson talks about the creation myth in Genesis and demonstrates the apparently detrimental effect that reading English at Cambridge has on one’s reading comprehension.
Though billed as a history of the Bible, only about the first quarter of the [...]
Cults. At the end of the day it always comes down to the fucking, doesn’t it?
Context.
2010 was always one of those dates that seemed fantastically far away back in the 1980s. It was one of those benchmark dates that was spoken of in terms of jet pack and flying car type predictions in science and technology shows like Tomorrow’s World on BBC.
And yet here we are in 2010, living in [...]
As I’m extremely late to the party on this (blame equal parts back-to-work meh and lack of non-mobile broadband), I’m sure someone’s planted this sitter in the back of the net already, but isn’t the public stoning of Iris Robinson and her lover(s) by the elders of the DUP long overdue?
I mean if members of [...]
First post of 2010 and under the Dermot Ahern blasphemy law. RTE’s PrimeTime had a feature of the law, which is drawing admiring noises from such bastions of individual liberty as Egypt, Iran and Pakistan.
On the panel was Ali Salim from the Irish Council of Imams who wanted to draw the line between “freedom [...]
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