For Your Consideration

In my last post, I referred to Brian Cowen as "El Biffo, the Clowen". I think the Clowen part is fairly obvious but whats up with putting El before Biffo? Well it just sounds better, but also its in reference to a lovely little suite of music by Chick Corea called El Bozo. Great, so whats the connection? Well, "Bozo" is a very famous clown in American Pop Culture. So there you have it, and again I say El Biffo just sounded good. But the other weird thing about Brian Cowen and Chick Corea is...



While they might look slightly similar, that's where the similarities end. For instance, one loves to rattle out a few tunes in public but has no ability to run a country, while the other is a jazz pianist.

For foreign readers, who are perhaps at this stage totally lost, I should point out that Biffo' is our current leader, our Prime Minister, our Taoiseach. And here he is last year, telling us how he's going to save Ireland from recession. Obama could learn a thing or two from this!



Anyone else get the smell of hot Guinness and fag butts while watching that? I can definitely hear him suffering from indigestion at the end. You know what the scariest thing is though, remember Boris Yeltsin, that infamous Russian leader, now since deceased. Remember at how we laughed at the video of his little dance on stage. "Oh Russia's rightly in the shit with this guy" we chuckled. Remember how their economy crumbled and people had their savings wiped out in the banks? Remember the scenes of hyperinflation where people where buying loaves of bread with wheel barrows of cash? Yep, I think we're in safe hands with Brian though. I get a mighty fine feelin' about that kid. Sure sing us another one there... a good Fenian one this time "The Broad Black Brimmer" or "Get out of me country, ya black bastard ya".