One of my clients is a large Dublin hospital. If I do have to travel to site, I aim to be there during lunch hour. A very good quality meal for $5 (staff canteen).

As for the Irish Star, do not be fooled by the humble tabloid layout, the celebrity-adjacent headlines, or the general impression that the editorial meeting takes place inside a…[Read more]

Reg:

Speaking of Irish publications, are they suffering from another famine over there? They’ve got to be bad off to take dietary advice from Bobby Brainworm and The Great and Wonderous Dr. Oz:

RFK Jr’s diet may help lower risk for dementia, study shows
Story by Eleanor Tolbert • 3…[Read more]

……and some commentary by me and then edited by AI.

1. Federal assumption of state debts
The federal government took on the Revolutionary War debts of the states. This was politically explosive, but brilliant. It made creditors loyal to the federal government rather than just to individual states. In plain English: Hamilton tied the moneyed…[Read more]

@Enco – Yes, I found the Commentary article to be a very good read.

Here is another one I read recently. Taken directly from the Irish Times, July 4th. Written by David McWilliams, an Irish economist.

It’s impossible to imagine the world without the dollar.

The American republic is 250 years old today. On this auspicious anniversary, the s…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Oh, and Trump originally promised he’d get gas prices to $2.00 a gallon within a year of winning office, so this is “Freedom Fuel Network” is a rip-off even by MAGA standards.

Fellow Unbeliever:

No sooner than one Fascist/Communist-friendly politician thug Graham Platner falls, the top dog of Fascist/Communist-friendly politicians, Donald J. Trump, rises up with a scheme to get support:

Trump is using his “Freedom Fuel Network” scheme to propagate the…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers and Jake:

Well, one good thing has happened: The Regressive Wokester, DSA, Antisemite wing of the Democratic Party of Maine now no longer has a candidate. The beaverpuss totalitarian Graham Platner is dropping out and his supporters have a little egg-on-face to scrape off:

Graham Platner drops Maine Senate…[Read more]

Israelis have excelled in lots of things.

Countering the Jew hating racism is not among those things. In fact just abhorrent. I proferred the explanation some time ago having first read it from an Israeli and having it corroborated a few times since. It is essentially we are not going to defend ourselves to morons. I guess it would be akin to an…[Read more]