I heard an ad on the radio the other day saying that Setanta Sports was available to Eircom Broadband customers and sure enough it is.

I’m not sure how much of their schedule is shown live but it’s worth checking out if you want to catch Muster Vs. Cardiff on Friday evening or a Champion’s League game on Tuesday next.

With Setanta getting even more Premiership coverage next season this looks a very sweet deal for Eircom.

*Edit: This is a better link.

Yup, it’s Franks random sketches time again. Again, I can’t really say exactly where it came from - it was a phone doodle, whether it was a reaction to what was being said or not I can’t really say - I don’t think it was to be honest so I don’t know what triggered it.

Looking at him now, I kind of see this guy as the internal monster who’s freaking out when you have to remain calm - for example if one was dealing with a difficult customer in the workplace, you might smile and say ‘Certainly, I’ll see what I can do…’ while inside this little freak out man is, well, freaking out.

Apparently this was printed in Yesterday’s Independent. The guy was outside the Ireland Vs. England game on Saturday.

Oh, the irony of it all.

Gay Byrne called for a debate on the legalisation of drugs, of course several people immediately had a seizure at the thought of actually talking about possible solutions to any drug problem…

From the Irish Independant:

Junior Minister Noel Ahern, who is responsible for the Government’s drug strategy, said any talk about legalising drugs was “irresponsible” while anti-drugs campaigner Grainne Kenny said the comments had been “a grave error of judgment”.

At least, according to the Irish Times, not everybody reacted with predictable horror:

The deputy lord mayor of Dublin has welcomed comments by former broadcaster and chairman of the Road Safety Authority Gay Byrne on the legalisation of drugs.

Mr Byrne told the RTÉ Radio 1 Conversations with Eamon Dunphy programme that he was coming round to the view that illegal drugs should be legalised because attempts to deal with the problem through law enforcement had “demonstrably failed”.

Speaking today, Labour Cllr Aodhan O Riordain agreed with Mr Byrne that a new approach to drugs was needed.

Noel Ahern, the minister of state responsible for drug strategy had these highly intelligent remarks to make on the whole incident:

“Drugs are illegal, and that’s the right way to have them. Any talk about liberalising drugs is irresponsible.”

Violent Acres is an anonymous blog that has been fast becoming unbelievably popular. It contains controversial, polarised views & stories written by someone who puts themselves forward as a married woman in her early thirties.

Everybody wants to know who VA is, and why they do what they do. Except me. I don’t care.

I just want to talk to you about comments, but before I do I want to share two posts from VA that I quite liked about political correctness and racism:

• I’m Sick Of Political Correctness
• Maggie and The Client

Now, about comments. Over at my day job I wrote a post about comments and the fact that how you manage your comments is up to you - it’s your blog.

A blog, if you ask me, is a set of writings presented in a reverse chronological order. Commenting is an optional extra.

What does this have to do with Violent Acres?

I liked this, from the FAQ:

9. Why don’t you allow comments on your site? Why don’t you post your email address?

Well, I think that’s pretty obvious, don’t you?

Because I don’t want to interact with you.

I don’t want to feel obligated to reply to your boring emails. I don’t want to take time out of my day to moderate your silly little comments. I don’t want to run in your cliquey high school social circles and I don’t want to be a part of your immature little Internet wars. I don’t want to be your friend.

Networking is just a fancy way to say ass kissing and a link from you is not important enough to me that I’d actually pretend to like you. Besides, I don’t need my virtual dick sucked to feel good about myself in the morning.