Year: 2016

I forgot that Nerd Prom was last night. Did anything interesting happen?

Dear Sir, Your correspondent, Donald Clarke, (My 10 cents on newspaper comments sections, Fri. 22nd. April) takes advantage of a suspension of readers comments on Irishtimes.com to have a whinge at, yes, you guessed it, reader...

George Will grew up in Champaign, Illinois, the son of a professor of philosophy who specialized in epistemology, so you can kind of see why he’d describe himself as an “amiable, low-voltage atheist.” His impatience with the...

Well, this isn’t exactly what we’d like to see… BAGHDAD — A state of emergency was declared in the Iraqi capital on Saturday as protesters stormed Iraq’s parliament, after bursting into the Baghdad’s fortified...

Literally the other day, I walked into my favorite coffee house, where everyone knows my name (hey, I always tip – that helps), only to learn that one of the baristas who had been on unpaid sick leave for a knee...