all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Many people lament Ireland’s “lost liquor”, poitin. Basically, distilled starch-derived alcohol. Why did it “disappear”? Where did it go? Was it a kind of forbidden nectar, or just another super strong distilled grain alcohol?...
Hundreds of Iraqis are being tortured to death or summarily executed every month in Baghdad alone by death squads working from the Ministry of the Interior, the United Nations’ outgoing human rights chief in...
The first loyalist march in Dublin since Partition had to be rerouted after thousands of republican protesters rioted in the centre of the Irish capital yesterday. OConnell Street, the birthplace of the 1916 rising,...
IRS exams found nearly three out of four churches, charities and other civic groups suspected of having violated restraints on political activity in the 2004 election actually did so … Among the prohibited activities,...
The bombing of the Askariya Shrine in Samarra effectively escalates the Iraqi Civil War from low-level insurgency to open conflict. It was a nice building as well. The golden dome on one shrine was...
I saw someone write this, apparently convinced of their own wisdom: People who live in the Arctic evolved to eat loads of fish and red meat, very few grains and produce. Human cultures capable...
A 1,500-member Iraqi police force with close ties to Shiite militia groups has emerged as a focus of investigations into suspected death squads working within the country’s Interior Ministry … “Who knows who they...
A rare, severe birth defect is on the rise in an inbred polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border … Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene...
Ah poor Harrison Ford, how far have you fallen from Solo and Jones… 1997, Air Force One. “Get off my PLANE!” 2006, Firewall. “Get off my SERVER!”