Backdated to Friday 8th January 2011. The Koran’s in under the telly and the fridge’s beer is non-alcoholic. Welcome to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the land of well, from… Read More »Into the Kingdom – Where Oil’s Abundant but Water Scarce
This article appeared in MIT’s “The Tech” on Friday 19th November 2010 and is available at the following location: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N55/mcgovern.html Who are those late night orators, keeping real and YouTube crowds… Read More »The Value of Being Seriously Funny
Low Fat Granola, ’tis a sweet death Ah yeah, death is never sweet, unless of course you overdose on well sweetened US Granola, or indeed a pile of sugar. They… Read More »Overdosing on Low Fat Granola – It's a Sweet Death
Low Fat Granola, ’tis a sweet death Ah yeah, death is never sweet, unless of course you overdose on well sweetened US Granola, or indeed a pile of sugar. They… Read More »Overdosing on Low Fat Granola – It’s a Sweet Death
This article appeared in MIT’s “The Tech” newspaper on Tuesday 19th October 2010 and is available at the following link: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N46/mcgovern.html What were they, those three fundamental human requirements, now superseded… Read More »Opinion: Taste requires quality; nutrition is more about quantity
This article appeared in MIT’s “The Tech” newspaper on Tuesday 12th October 2010 and is available at the following link: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N44/mcgovern.html I’ve now spent two months seeing gas priced per… Read More »The world’s imperceptible slide towards standardization
Three eighteen inch pizzas, plus one slice, in ten minutes and two seconds. 16.27 seconds per slice if you prefer the SI units! Joey Chestnut, he’s your man, a world… Read More »Eating Your Way to 37 Pizza Slices in Ten Minutes
This article appeared in the Tuesday 28th September 2010 edition of MIT’s “The Tech” Newspaper available at the following address: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/PDF/N40.pdf Half an hour waiting in a long snaking queue, or… Read More »Charity Extraction
One week ago now, the Taoiseach was ’round the bar, then on the radio, then sitting on the fence, a sitting duck, deciding what way to play his cards after TD Coveney’s… Read More »Things to Learn from Cow-on Gate
A building sky, far out ahead, As clouds lie flat, upon their heads, Facial features, silhouettes On yellow, orange, then dark red, Square chins and noses off to bed.