Post-Intelligibility

Post-leftism has its roots in the inter-war decades of the last century when the old left’s belief in a future socialist society first began to drain away. It grew, as the late Lionel Trilling put it, in the form of an “adversary culture” – a comprehensive opposition to “bourgeois” society ungrounded in a positive alternative. The post-left has radicalised this inchoate hostility until “Amerika” is the satanic principle in the world.

God knows what the hell this is all about, but I couldn’t help but noticing that the article claims Lionel Trilling, who has been dead for more than thirty years, said that post-leftism grew in the form of an “adversary culture”, even though the term itself (‘post-leftism’) was coined by contributors to a magazine which has only been on the go for three years. That’s visionary for you.

Confirmed – Plinky Plonky Pinky Porky

The severed finger was found a week later on top of the 8ft fence. An extensive search for the keen pianist’s missing finger was launched on O’Connell Street at the time.

That the initial story was reported and commented on even before the full facts had emerged is all too common in this digital age.

Woolly Mammals and Harp Lager: It´s Our Thing

Hilarious, sort of:

Blueprint series editor Paul McGuigan says: “We’re rolling 600 million years of Northern Ireland’s unique past into an exciting series across television, radio and online.”

Via Slugger O’Toole. Apparently the dinosaurs from both communities lived in peace and harmony.

I don’t know when it was that Northern Ireland began to seem to me like something really stupid and unnecessary. But since then, it’s started to seem even stupider (though I don’t see any state as particularly necessary).