New Zealand’s Watergate

In 1972, the Deomcratic party’s HQ was the subject of a bungled attempt at a break in. This lead to a scandal that is so well known, that it became known as “Watergate” after the hotel, and almost every scandal in the English speaking world having the “-gate” suffix attached. Why would you break into…

Looks like WOBH now has an official superyacht

It’s not really big enough for all his readers, but it certainly looks the part. Seventy-six meter long “Oculus,” which is designed for 12 guests, looks like a large sea creature, with one end looking uncannily like the jaw and eye socket of a shark or a killer whale. A second design, the futuristic, 91-meter…

Labour Research Hiring

WhaleOil has detail. We are looking for a dirty-digging mud-slinging flunky to join our team…

NZ Politics Today

Whale Oil is right, the gloves are off. Labour has the cheek to say on National TV “stop the tittle-tattle, and call the dogs off”. They have already and Clark dismissed it. Unfortunately for her, it wasn’t a public pulling back, it was private. This, in my opinion, gives it much more credibility Don Brash…

Distractions

Whale Oil has a great post about distractions, including the affair. As much as I share my wife’s distain for the affair, he’s 65! Can you imagine Helen having an affair? Actually, I don’t know what disturbs me more, the image that produces or something about her (lack of) humanity that makes me believe that…