2009-11-16

Mark Coughlan on political donations in Ireland

This is a wonderful article, although the content is somewhat sickening. I can add this to my short list of political litmus tests, along with support for the Taoiseach's Eleven (e.g. pages 47-48 of the 2004 Report on Seanad Reform), the Voteless Dáil (moved by Mary Hanafin), and the Unnumbered Envelopes.
at
Labels: , , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Failure recovery

I've been categorizing distributed system designs into four groups, according to how they recover from the loss of a single critical ele...

  • Directive 2003/58/EC
    The EU, in a genuine act of stupidity (not to be confused with the imaginary acts of stupidity usually recorded in the British press), has d...
  • POSIX time_t is not UTC
    For years, I've been pretending that time_t is a better representation of time than any combination of year, month, day, etc. That...
  • Socializing the Weather
    I came back to Ireland from the US in 2000, and was immediately disappointed by the weather service. I don't mean the perpetual overcast...