Recent content by Irishdude

Art class from 930 to 12 this morning. A couple of errands. Mow the little postage stamp backyard with push mower and trim back some bushes. Then wife, daughter and I are going out to dinner with a golf friend of mine.

I like Etta James because she works with the song and doesn't try to overpower it.

Today I went to the gym then went downtown to an art supply store for a class that begins tomorrow. Then I went home and had lunch and read for a while. I wanted tea and cake at about 330 so I painted this instead.

The good old days!

Except for Japan, Thailand and a few others, this is basically a map of the British Empire at its greatest extent!

"I didn't know this ship was going to capture and kill large ocean-going mammals!" Tom wailed.

When people ask me whether or not I believe in God, I just say that I believe in the teachings of Jesus.

No offense, but this is ridiculous. You point out that poverty rates in Australia haven't really changed in the last ten years. In the US, poverty rates have dropped by about one percentage point from 1970 to today. Globally, however, it's a different story. About 60 percent of the...

We're a big country with 50 states and 330 million people. I'm surprised there aren't more jurisdictions, frankly. We don't have a national police force except for a few specialized functions. States do maintain their own police forces but they too are usually quite specialized. Day to day...

I got nothin'. I keep my watch in a drawer and use my phone if I need to tell what time it is. Since cataract surgery I don't even have glasses.

IMHO they look horrible. Way too much surgery, botox and everything else.

In public, at a wedding last summer. In private, I'm working on a funky dance routine to the Stones' Beast of Burden. I think it's based on a memory of Dan Aykroyd imitating Tom Snyder imitating Mick Jagger on Saturday Night Live about 50 years ago. It's pretty good, too bad nobody will...