At some point there was a pronouncement that everyone's profile should be public, so that people could more easily search their comment history, but I think this was only ever enforced on Leon, … (View Post)

Anyway, I took this photo of a rather lovely Irish Marsh Orchid in the garden yesterday. So I guess I own a marsh - or a field as they call it here in ireland. (View Post)

I agree with that, and yet it is insufficient. People generally do not make decisions or choices on the basis of a rational evaluation of well-attested facts. They make a judgement, based on part on … (View Post)

The longer I live in Ireland the more dysfunctional the politics and governance appears to be. I didn't have any particular illusions about it being well run when I moved here, but over time one… (View Post)

Feels a bit weak to me not to demand Russia to withdraw and respect the Budapest Memorandum. It essentially acquiesces to Russia holding the ~one-fifth of Ukraine it currently occupies. That's a… (View Post)