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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Thursday, August 18, 2011

The View From Ireland

1) Airplane travel sucks.  The seats are too small and too close together, especially when you have a two year old with an ear ache screaming his head off behind you.

2) This lack of sleep makes you forgetful.  This is why I may have left my iPhone on the plane.  I am... not happy.

3) It's amazing how much Ireland resembles Ireland.

4) It is not always easy understanding Irish people speaking English.  I thought it might be a form of passive resistance, but the guy we couldn't understand turned out to be a Protestant.

5) There is a Protestant history of Ireland and a Catholic history of Ireland.  It's difficult to tell if they agree on anything.  Amazing that the Good Friday accords have kept the peace this long.

6) St. Patrick loved him to Jesus.

7) Sleep deprivation is awful, but losing something important when you travel - like a freaking iPhone - is much worse.

Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

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