Month: March 2006

Starry Night Lounge Free hot coffee; so sober up before driving home. Kindly recommend this cafe and unrecommend the previous one.

Remember the part early in The Handmaiden’s Tale where the women wake up to find their bank accounts are frozen?  (Also they are fired from their jobs.) Well, come next week I cannot cash checks in my own bank on my...

Just when you thought Iraq couldn’t get more messed up and confusing, Kurdish rioters have destroyed their own shrine to the victims of Halabja. And this is after Colin Powell was nice enough to show up for the...

Somewhere in a pub in County Clare… “A drop of the top shelf, in your own good time, please.  Make it Green Spot” “Uisge beathe” “Go raibh maith agat, Sean Beag.”...

On Friday NBC ran a news service on security in American airports. The GAO tested 21 airports with homemade bombs that could have blown a good sized hole in any aircraft. The bombs went through security without a hitch. The GAO...