No rhyme or reason.
“There is such a thing as decency, and this is not decent.”
“Trans-Atlantic arse exhibition”
In highlighting the alleged diversity of organised crime, RTE isn’t telling you anything new about organised crime. It’s telling you what it thinks of you, the Irish people.
To a lot of people watching around the world, it came across as deeply weird, angry, and obsessive.
If Israel wanted to inflict a genocide on Gaza, it could have done so by last Christmas.
Concerned voters
I’m increasingly nervous about a prediction I made at the start of the year.
Elections are not decided, and never have been, by informed voters. To live in a democracy is to live in a tyranny of the casual, uninformed voter.
Confusion
Putting up with some clutter on the lampposts is a very small price to pay for living in a country where we get to be consulted about how we should be ruled.
The primary theological difference between worship of the Christian God and worship of the underworld is that only one of those requires that you take responsibility for your actions