I awake this morning to a more frightening world. Yesterday blasphemy became a crime in Ireland, one element of a bill supposedly focused on defamation. Today in Ireland, certain categories of ideas gain for the first time a special status; a protection normally reserved for human beings. Yesterday, in the final moments before the hammer [...]
What does it mean to be a man? What is today’s masculine paradigm? Is it the Govenator, that steroid hewn fusion of marketing mythology? Is it Alan Partridge or David Brent, swollen, broken half men, wracked with narcissistic self loathing? Is it Don Draper, the illusion of a confident misogynist? Perhaps it’s the midget machismo [...]
Dylan Moran has a beautiful little skit (above) in his stand up show ‘Monster’. It deals with potential, the idea being that if you imagine yourself to be good at something then you should never, ever attempt it, lest you be revealed as the fail you are. Ladyboy Jesus knows this only too well, look [...]
Hot on the heels of the paper of record’s sterling electoral journalism, and just in time for the tail end of today’s Irish local elections, we here at Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus have compiled a comprehensive list of the five smarmiest candidates standing in the local, European and national by-elections. Certain threads run through the posters [...]
Something interesting is going on over at United Minds.ie. Ross O’Mullane, a candidate with no previous political experience, is running in the Dublin South constituency on a direct democracy ticket. With only two days to the June 5th elections, a candidate is standing in an Irish by election, on a platform radically opposed to representative [...]
This magazine is almost a week old, so the time seems right to address the great big Fianna fail elephant in the room. The provocation that lead to us putting this project together. Last week I attended a meeting of ‘Blasphemy Ireland‘. I’d been incensed by media reports of Dermot Ahern’s (Irish Minister for Justice, [...]
So, you’ve been dating your insignificant other for a few months, somebody’s birthday’s approaching and anal is on the table. What do you mean it’s a one night thing and she’s up for it? Anal sex is not to be trifled with. Done right it can be sublime and incredibly intense for both parties. Unfortunately [...]
In a country such as ours, with comparatively few competitive advantages over our neighbours and competitors further away, education is vitally important. As the Minister is fond of saying, ours is a knowledge based economy. Well, knowledge and Common Agricultural Policy based. Despite this, the government have consistently underfunded the driving force in this knowledge [...]
In September the sex shops of South inner city Dublin were raided by An Gardai Siochana. Officers confiscated an estimated 8,000 pornographic DVD’s from adult shops situated within the jurisdiction of Pearse Street Garda station. Police were acting in the ill-defined area of censorship of pornography in Ireland. Under Irish law pornography is theoretically legal, [...]
*plus other assorted superheroes, talking clouds, invisible beings and Oprah Dearest Dermot, (dermot@dermotahern.ie, dermot.ahern@oireachtas.ie) I would like to congratulate you for your excellent use of the tax payers resources and your own energy with your proposed new blasphemy law. By Christ’s Hairless Taint, this is the best thing I’ve heard of in a long time. [...]