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After an astoundingly difficult week where my brain actually stopped working for a few scary hours on Monday morning, I am now finishing off my second essay of the day and feeling good again. Oh yeah. I can hear the Spirit whispering, “If you live by your academic performance you die by your academic performance”. [...]

There probably isn’t enough discussion being had about “free markets” in the midst of this collapse we’re suffering through. Understanding the scale of the problems that we are in is beyond the grasp of most of us but suffice to say, the USA is on the hook for $24000 for every citizen. Or in other [...]

I do not hide my passionate love of Sarah Palin. I will always regard her as the President of the USA, even though she wasn’t even running for that office. A high school basketball star who preaches at pentecostal churches and didn’t know that Africa was a continent… has there ever been a better choice.
As [...]

Introduction
I’ve learned to hate Russians
All through my whole life
If another war starts
It’s them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side.
But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we’re forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot [...]

I saw this classic Romanian movie yesterday. Set at the end of Communism in Bucharest, it tells the story of two college students in their early 20s as they try to procure an illegal abortion. It’s an Iron Curtain movie about abortion. This is not first-date material people.

It is appropriately dismal however, because it [...]

Michael Lewis explains:
In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $720,000.
An astonishing article.
Your Correspondent, Deposited monopoly money, loo roll and roubles into his savings account

Maybe Irish citizens can help me understand something that I have wondered about for four years.
Below is a road sign from the N4 at Corboy in Co. Longford. What does the “0625″ mean?

Your Correspondent, Plans to holiday in your basement, very quietly

So Clairebo and I went to see dubyah last night and that is one very strange film. The two hours flew by- it is very entertaining. And it was annoying to have to listen to the idiots in the cinema who obviously learned everything they know about geopolitics from a poster they saw for sale [...]

Stranger still is that, whereas these older figures, and latterly Sarah Palin, were perceived by the liberal-secular world as appealing to something called the religious right, the hope that draws us to Obama and Clinton has also been rooted in an essentially Christian view of the world. Cultural memory tells us that Jesus lived and [...]

A Friday night left at home as my wife dines in the second fanciest restaurant in town (we’re Christians, you know) and I study greek. Why did I choose this life? Oh yeah, the chicks. I always forget that one.
Instead of Greek I am listening to TV On The Radio’s superb new album and reading [...]