Hilarious take on conservative double-speak - originating (vol.1) and (vol.2) with John Ridley on Huffington Post and taken up with gusto and comments on That Minority Thing.

Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters
A deeply thoughtful and prescient essay by conservative commentator Andrew Sulivan at Atlantic.com. His blog is here
Another Venice Carnival video on YouTube by Aisling Eyre
Are they men or women? Who cares.
Authors to profit from library scheme
Draft regulations which are currently being finalised are expected to cap the [...]

Good lord, that’s quite a scoop for Suzy Byrne’s blog, Maman Poulet.
Plaudits, Ms Byrne. Another award winging your way, I’d wager.
Anyone following the US election campaign will know that Ms Palin, Republican VP candidate, included Ireland on her three country total in her resumé of visits outside the US. But Maman Poulet had [...]