Entries Tagged as 'Politics'

May 24, 2007

Democracy

The polls will close in ten minutes for the Irish general election. Unfortunately I am outside my constituency and cannot return as it is exam time (and I also didn’t have a chance to move my vote or do a postal vote). A few people have mentioned that the government scheduled the election at this [...]

January 2, 2007

Arundhati Roy ‘We’ documentary

Please watch this video if you can, it’s a documentary abour Arundhati Roy’s words, someone I’ve admired for a long time and would align myself closely to her values and humanity. It’s got a great soundtrack too. (Download it to watch full-screen: link)

November 17, 2006

Intelligent podcasts

Anyone who knows me knows I have an interest in American politics. For quite a while now, I’ve been feeding that interest with The Daily Show and The Colbert report clips on the net, which are not only informing, but are hilarious to boot. Well, I’ve now started to pass my time when walking by [...]

July 3, 2006

It’s not a big truck, it’s a series of tubes

What am I talking about?
The internet no less! Who would’ve thought, that it’s not a big truck. What genius of human civilization? Senator Ted Stevens that’s who.
You have GOT to listen to this MP3 of him talking to the Senate Commerce committee.
It’s more than suspicious how much he seems to care for ‘the consumer’, even [...]