Media attention

The spy scandal affects the press gallery personally, so has the potential to run and run. Here’s a wee cartoon of how media attention normally works…

GCSB protests at 2pm today

This cartoon by Mark O’Brien at monsta.co.nz probably accurately reflects the distasteful uncertainty that many of us feel about the purpose and intent […]

Sunday Reading

My semi-regular Sunday piece of interesting, longer, deeper stories I found during the week. It’s also a chance for you to share what you found this week too. Those stimulating links you wanted to share, but just didn’t fit in anywhere.  This week: mastery of the internet means mastery of us by the NSA, feminist statistics, some interesting people and popularity lists.

When memes attack

The speed with which Planet Key caught on is a measure of the public recognition that the Nats have lost the plot.

My images of Rena

From my facebook. Some opportunistic bugger is trying to offload their boat. TomScott in Weellington does his cogent best as does the Herald cartoonist. Then there is my favorite (despite its grammar error).

Debt explained

The same scenario of tax cuts, national debt, and public spending cuts is being played out in New Zealand, Britain and the USA.  Here’s the right wing argument in a nutshell…

McCully does have vision..

There have been a lot of complaints that Murray McCully is useless as our offshore representative and shows a complete lack of vision. Stop complaining.

John Black shows you what the alternatives could be…

Key is going. Now who pays?

So John Key has finally dropped his veils* and is going to Copenhagen. Well, Rob Emmerson correctly predicted how the ineffectual Emissions Trading […]

From the archives

I figured this was deserving of a post of its own. It’s a cartoon from The Standard (v1.0) sent in by Anita in […]