Fintan O'Toole about the Nobel Prize winning scientists that have been warning us about the climate crisis and the need to stop driving and otherwise polluting since the 1950s - and how we have managed to avoid hearing them
#ClimateCrisis #FintanOToole #EdwardTeller
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/08/15/fintan-otoole-all-my-life-there-have-been-climate-warnings-were-ingenious-at-ignoring-them/

"What kind of alien invasion movie was this conspiracy? It was 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'."

#NewYorkReviewOfBooks #FintanOToole #JackSmith #DonaldTrump #Indictment

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/08/04/invasion-of-the-democracy-snatchers-trump-indictment/

This deal could have been struck in 2021 – but the last thing Brexiters wanted was to get Brexit done
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/28/deal-2021-brexiteers-get-brexit-done-eurosceptic-boris-johnson?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#NIProtocolDeal
#FintanOToole

"#FintanOToole’s personal history of #Ireland since the fifties: how a country dominated by a corrupt Catholic church came to legalize gay marriage and abortion — by referendum. His much-honored ‘personal history’ of Ireland, titled #WeDontKnowOurselves, is out now in paperback."

#books

#StartMakingSense

https://www.redcircle.com/shows/f42ee235-8574-4ed7-902e-0176c818cc37

https://www.thenation.com/podcast/politics/sms-otoole-pollitt/

#FintanOToole #TheNation #TheNextInsurrection #USAShitShow

https://www.thenation.com/podcast/politics/sms-otoole-pollitt/

#FintanOToole #TheNation

Fintan O'Toole on the concept of 'Moral Hazard', where the poor can't be helped because it'd make them lazy, but crooked builders must be bailed out by taxpayers, despite the certainty that they'll go straight back and do the same again https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/01/24/fintan-otoole-irish-moral-hazard-means-being-bailed-out-by-the-state-if-you-build-a-slum/ #MoralHazard #FintanOToole

“It used to be cocaine that was, as Robin Williams had it, God’s way of telling you that you have too much money. Now it’s buying #Twitter for $44 billion and setting fire to it…”

#FintanOToole: Musk’s #TantrumCapitalism explodes myth of buccaneering #libertarianism - The #IrishTimes

https://apple.news/Aug5RswKQONWh9eLSoCgDLw

“It used to be cocaine that was, as Robin Williams had it, God’s way of telling you that you have too much money. Now it’s buying #Twitter for $44 billion and setting fire to it…”

#FintanOToole: Musk’s #TantrumCapitalism explodes myth of buccaneering #libertarianism - The #IrishTimes

https://apple.news/Aug5RswKQONWh9eLSoCgDLw

I love #FintanOToole's coinage "tantrum capitalism" https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/12/20/fintan-otoole-musks-tantrum-capitalism-explodes-myth-of-buccaneering-libertarianism/

#ElonMusk gets the #FintanOToole treatment (Sub Req). I’m not sure if #TantrumCapitalism is an O’Toole creation but it has now been added to as a new favorite to my lexicon 😜

FOT nails it when he describes #Musk’s version of #FreeSpeech as “Shut up and listen to me.”

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/12/20/fintan-otoole-musks-tantrum-capitalism-explodes-myth-of-buccaneering-libertarianism/

So I was in #Ireland working in May, and have since then spent a surprising amount of time there mentally: listening to #Hozier while riding my bike to work - and lately listening to #FintanOToole 's "We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland" - a great #book elegantly weaving a bunch of storylines together to create a nuanced image of the country. #literature #nonfiction And also here's a song for you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CgsLoYuns6Y