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" (Substitute Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week) OK, it&amp;#039;s a golf course now but, once upon a time, a girl named Mary Ellen Lynch walked these hills outside Listowel with her five sisters, tending the family sheep. I was thinking about her the other day when I walked out of the United States Senate. She was my grandmother and she was a shepherd girl in north Kerry, and I was working in the United States Senate for the day, and this is still the damndest country for that kind of stuff isn&amp;#039;t it?  Anyway, I was thinking about her because I&amp;#039;m going back over for a week, for the great Listowel Races. By Sunday night, I&amp;#039;ll be trying to decide on which horse I should lose my money and who will be in John B. Keane&amp;#039;s to argue with. And that&amp;#039;s why I replaced the usual music with my favorite rebel ballad. And because Lisa Gerrard can shake the very fking heavens with her voice alone. Posting will be somewhat erratic, and I&amp;#039;ll do what I can to add a little local color, especially if the missiles fly. Also, not all the great music from across the pond is old. These are some Kerry boys, and I like this cut a lot. The New England Patriots and New York Jets perpetrated a football game last night that gave me post-concussion syndrome because I kept banging my head on the coffee table to stay awake. Giving Tom Brady this receiving corps is like handing Van Cliburn a fking band-saw. But the Jets? Oh dear, do the Jets ever suck. A shana tova to all my Jewish friends, and have a happy and healthy 5774. And, yes, West Wingers, I know about bringing the Yiddish, and Presbyterians from Westport. This is the coolest thing that happened this week. And it&amp;#039;s getting even cooler. Apparently, interstellar space sounds a lot like Rick Wakeman&amp;#039;s solo work. And yes, West Wingers, Blind Willie Johnson has left the building. Anyway, I&amp;#039;ll be covering the gobshitery with some actual gobshites this week, which ought to be interesting. Be safe and play nice. A chara, ya great pack of omadhauns. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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