Sometimes it’s hard to see where bloggers stand exactly. Sometimes they seem to be against something… Sue Bradford has been receiving death threats during the campaign around last weekend’s smacking referendum. This sort of thuggery has absolutely no place in our political system, and I’d expect it to be condemned by people across the political [...]
Just going through my “Uncategorized” posts and accidental published one of my drafts. Apologies to Ken who took the time to respond – quite right to wonder what my point was! On the plus side, 4.5 pages of post listings now have a semi-meaningful category.
Sue Bradford was on National Radio this morning. She seemed fine with the threats made by her own side, twice pointing to the other side’s threats without ever condemning her own. This while Larry was clearly prepared to condemn extremes in the pro-smacking side, stating explicitly: I don’t support anyone who goes around using abusive [...]
This week – vehicles that are just… wrong. First, these guys couldn’t find tires that fitted, so they improvised. These guys wanted a more comfortable ride. Then, the single seat version. Looks like it might be electric too. How about a wheelchair? But why stop with just a sofa? Why not include a coffee table? [...]
This arrived in my email, so I thought I’d perform a public (dis)service and advertise it here. After more than two years in production and costing over one million dollars (US) to produce, CMI’s Darwin Film, The Voyage that Shook the World, finally hits the big screen—and you are invited. In reality, most people believe [...]
During his presidency, Kennedy privately admitted to friends that he didn’t feel that he deserved the medals he had received, because the PT-109 incident had been the result of a botched military operation that had cost the lives of two members of his crew. When later asked by a reporter how he became a war [...]
As we all know, lightening never strikes twice – it’s an isolated incident. So are a lot of other things. Patterico yesterday had 8 posts entitled “An Isolated Incident” detailing people struck by lightening. His point is regarding illegal immigration raids (the media are trying to make out that they’re common) but the same could [...]
Why did Key do what he did? That’s the question a lot of people are asking. Quite simply, he did a deal with the devil. He signed up to a compromise to get himself on the podium beside the prime minister. Unfortunatly, in doing so he a) betrayed his base b) gave up a fight [...]
Well, I’ve been using Blogger over at Yes Vote fail and I have one thing to say. It’s terrible. Why does anyone use this thing? The text editing is horrible compared to wordpress. There are all sorts of quirks – and if you hit one of them undo almost never undoes the mistake. It might [...]
Gosh, the Standard has tried to tone down the rhetoric. Not. In the aftermath it’s obvious that there’s a lot of irrational anger and bluster out there — on both sides of the Yes No fence. While it’s tempting to sit back and enjoy the spectacle of John Key getting lambasted by much of his [...]
