lessons learned

My, but it HAS been an enlightening few days, hasn't it?After pouring over a virtual plethora of material from numerous media sources, so-called "mainstream" and otherwise, here is just a sample of the new fascinating nuggets of information I know now that I didn't know last Monday morning when I was seeing off the last of my Grand Slam hangover.If you hang a portrait in a gallery without permission, the gardaí will come after you.Our current Taoiseach is overweight.Our current Taoiseach has little or no sense of humour.Our current Taoiseach seems to spend time on matters other than adequately handling the financial crisis.There are those in RTE who do the government's bidding.Bloggers believe in free speech.John Waters is a knob.Would it be too much to hope that this #picturegate thing lingers on into next week so we can broaden our intellectual horizons even further???© JL Pagano 2009