I meant to post this on Sunday… Dundalk man Jim Corr’s appeared last weekend on RTÉ’s new Saturday Night Show (hosted by that appalling Cork man Brendan O’Connor). Crap name for a show? Maybe… but at least it’s not “The Brendan O’Connor Show”…

And yes… Jim’s still bonkers… and he’s still going on about the New World Order stuff that he ranted about on the Last Word almost two years ago ahead of the first Lisbon Treaty. He’s still in way out of his depth and still abusing his fame and celebrity to spread this stuff and (repeatedly) promote his activist shite peddling web site.

I mean SURE… he’s entitled to his opinion and he’s certainly entitled to express it if he wants to… (although I believe RTÉ gave him way too much airtime here and any other presenter would have pulled him up on a few points far better than O’Connor could) – but if you’re to believe him, you’d have to believe the following:

Can’t. Get. This. Song. Out of my head.

Can’t imagine why…

I now officially LOVE this song. So there!

Enjoy the legend at work! (By the way, I’ve changed this video to the one from Moonwalker as the original one wouldn’t embed).

(More “Songs of the Moment” here)

I really can’t sufficiently put into words the magnitude of the death of Michael Jackson – or what it means to me, the music world at large and his literally millions of fans around the planet. I really can’t properly express the shock and dismay his death has caused and how simply very very sad it is to see him go – he was a Peter Pan type character who, even at the age of 50, had stubbornly refused to leave childhood – and now, I guess, will never have to.

As I say, I can’t sufficiently explain the impact this death has had (..He’s like the Elvis of our generation in many respects.. you’ll remember where you were when he died won’t you? I was serving pints in my local. Wish I wasn’t.) – but that’s okay, because Rubot and Lottie have both done excellent jobs at explaining it, and Germaine Greer has written an excellent article in the Guardian which I find myself completely agreeing with.

I’m sure, in many ways, he was a tortured soul – never actually being able to live life like a normal human being, always being in the public gaze since he was a very young child, becoming extremely eccentric and constantly – unnaturally – defying his age. I’m sure his torture is ended now. I’ve pretty-much ignored all the jokes – many of them pretty nasty – that have started flying around about him – while, thankfully, I’ve received none by text to my phone myself (- and anyone who knows me, knows that if they do send me any tasteless jokes about someone who has died by text or whatever, they can count themselves out of my contact list pretty quickly). Show some respect. The man has died. It’s a sad and tragic event – don’t mock him – let him rest in peace.

I’d say the latest Q Magazine will sell well…

Most Americans I know would know to take Fox News with a pinch of salt about the size of the salt lake in Larnaca but many take their often wildly inaccurate and opinionated tripe seriously, so I was interested to see this reply from MSNBC – who are directly apportioning some of the blame for the extraordinarily controversial murder of abortionist, Dr. George Tiller onto Fox News. Tiller was assassinated on May 31st (just 3 days ago) as he served as an usher during the Sunday morning service at his church in Wichita, Kansas.

As this video shows, Fox News – and particularly Bill O’Reilly – constantly labelled Tiller as “Tiller the Baby Killer” and regularly gave him more coverage than was necessarily merited from a journalistic point of view – saying he “killed thousands,.. thousands of late term foetuses without explanation”… “has blood on his hands”… “was acquitted today of murdering babies – there’s got to be a special place in hell for this guy”.

Are Fox complicit in the murder? Are they guilty of incitement to hatred? You decide.

It’s Weasel Stomping Day! … Good old Adult Swim/Robot Chicken (Poor old weasels!)

More of the same… here.