A sixty something male, happily settled with two adult brats and my rock of common sense. I've worked at lots of jobs, done lots of things, had many experiences hairy and otherwise and have met some really interesting people in my life as well as a fair share of pricks too. I have witnessed change, some of it just for the sake of it and I hope this blog will communicate the "how it was" as well as the "how it might all turn out." I am a libertarian, mildly catholic, strongly christian and I like to practice what I preach. I hope you enjoy my observations and some of them serve you well in your life.
Are you in favour of human rights? Actually, it doesn’t matter whether you are of not because you are paying for them anyway. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission is publicly funded and that means by you. Now don’t you … Continue reading →
Back in 2009 there was a serious flooding incident here in Cork City. At the time, as I remember it, we had had several weeks of quite heavy rain and that mixed with spring tides can often cause flooding in … Continue reading →
In the past in our nuclear armed world, when tensions between the acknowledged nuclear powers ramped up, diplomats from both sides earned their salaries. So, a known Russian double-agent, who provided MI6 with the names of many Russian spies that … Continue reading →
Years ago during the Soviet era, Private Eye magazine ran a cartoon that summed up the sentencing of dissident author Alexander Solzhenitsyn to the Gulag for 20 years. Two ordinary Russians in Red Square watch a jet flying eastwards overhead … Continue reading →