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Chin v Cull

On National Radio this morning they had the top two mayoral candidates for Dunedin. While Mr Cull gave a good speech, Chin did very, very badly in his opening statement. I’ve no idea what the feeling is around Dunedin, but that stammering performance has lost the incumbent a lot of votes.

Possum Throwing our new National Sport?

I see that there’s some fuss after some reporter discovered that a rural school was having a possum throwing contest. Sounds like fun. The SPCA have weighed in. Not sure why: a) Possums are a noxious pest. People get paid to kill them. I’ve personally dispatched a few (in my younger days), usually a fewhammer [...]

Israeli raid on Gaza terror flotilla broke law – UN probe

They beat men armed with crowd control paintball guns with iron bars, but it was Israel that was at fault. Israel’s military broke international laws during a raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a UN Human Rights Council investigation says. Its report said the action by commandos, which left nine dead, was “disproportionate” and “betrayed [...]

Another protest about nothing

Greenpeace today blocked one entrance to Fonterra HQ. Greenpeace this morning barricaded the Auckland corporate headquarters of Fonterra, protesting the use of palms kernels as stock feed. Around 20 demonstrators erected a 1.8m by 2.4m long barricade fixed with television screens inside the foyer of the Princes St offices. … Greenpeace claim Fonterra import one [...]

Using Religion to make a Point, No.2

How to tell a fake

So a completely unknown 25 year old singer gets years of music stolen, and it makes the news. But here’s the bit which sealed the deal for me. The laptop had been the only item stolen after the thief used a brick to smash a back window, he said. Police had come to take fingerprints [...]

Morality of Society At Large

Two stories. Tapu Misa: Some people I know send their children to schools they perceive as having the right values, trusting, I think, that the hefty fees they pay will ensure that their child emerges with the right quotient of virtues. At King’s College in Otahuhu, for example, they list their values as generosity of [...]

Using Religion to make a Point, No.1

Breitbart Takes on the Astroturfers

Can’t really go past Patterico’s title. It’s… well, scary how scared these protesters are to face Breitbart. He goes along the line, asking people to justify their signs, and they simply can’t give reasoned answers, if they answer at all. After only a couple, the organisers move them away so he can’t do that anymore. [...]