Three Thousand Versts of Loneliness

Michael Stone intends to defend his "performance art" by calling both Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley as witnesses, when he is tried for his bizarre slow motion attack on Stormont. But what really puts the cherry on his wobbly mental blamange may be the following comments regarding BBC NI's satirical animation Folks on the Hill - "I knew nothing about Stormont until I watched that show on television. I found it very realistic".

Pete Baker has been tenaciously blogging on two fronts over on Slugger O’Toole. But his latest thread fascinatingly links the allegations of cronyism against the First Minister, over his backing of Seymour Sweeney’s plans for a new visitor centre at the Giant’s Causeway, to the DUPiban’s emerging belligerence over creationism . It is as scary as it is preposterous that visitors to our shores may be treated to the wisdom that the causeway was formed 4000 years ago during Noah’s flood! As a poster on Slugger wryly notes, they may as well advance as science the "Finn MacCool Theory".