Tag: Ireland
-
The Company We Keep
My son asked me a question the other day that still cuts very deep. “How are you comfortable being in league with racists, xenophobes and reactionaries?” he asked. What prompted the question was my support for Brexit. I’ll admit it is true that the likes of Boris Johnson, the idiotic and racist former London mayor,…
-
Sarah Palin: Foreign Policy Heavyweight
I take back everything I ever said about Gov.Sarah Palin’s lack of foreign policy experience. It turns out that Palin is, indeed, a world traveler. We already knew that Palin visited Kuwait to visit members of the Alaska National Guard. We already knew that she visited Ireland on her way to Kuwait. (Okay, it wasn’t…