Written By: - Date published: 4:00 pm, October 22nd, 2009 - 19 comments
I love the ASB ads saying “We’ve been a Kiwi bank since 1847” No. You were a Kiwi bank. Since 1989 you’ve been owned by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. Also, what’s up with calling themselves ASB Bank? Auckland Savings Bank Bank?
Written By: - Date published: 3:14 pm, October 21st, 2009 - 40 comments
OK, so this might be only slightly more intellectual than the usual quality of political analysis in our msm, and obviously it could never match the informative value of asking which politician would help an old lady across the street, but a few days back there was some speculation about which Simpsons character best personifies […]
Written By: - Date published: 11:18 am, October 21st, 2009 - 3 comments
Written By: - Date published: 12:21 pm, October 17th, 2009 - 24 comments
Last night on TV3’s 7 Days panelist Jeremy Elwood described John Key as “New Zealand’s very own Ned Flanders without a moustache.” Ned’s a pretty complex character, with quite a lot of suppressed rage and a dark side that makes his hyper-cheerful niceness actually more of a necessary coping device than an optional expression of […]
Written By: - Date published: 5:09 pm, October 16th, 2009 - 25 comments
I’ve been meaning to post on the emergence of Crimestoppers in New Zealand for a few days now. While some might say it’s a nasty and divisive idea funded by a dodgy Tory and likely to encourage a fascistic culture of mistrust if anyone ever takes it seriously, I certainly wouldn’t. In fact I welcome […]
Written By: - Date published: 7:05 pm, October 7th, 2009 - Comments Off on Climatic catastrophe lolz
hat-tip Sam Vilain in comments
Written By: - Date published: 9:02 am, October 5th, 2009 - 31 comments
When they’re struggling to defend Bill English’s housing rip-off, or John Key’s clowning, or Richard Worth’s dodgy dealings, or Anne Tolley’s incompetence, or Paula Bennett’s bullying, righties will still often try to deflect by recalling the time the car Helen Clark was in sped in Canterbury. Speeder-gate remains one of the worst things idealogs of the […]
Written By: - Date published: 8:29 am, October 5th, 2009 - 20 comments
Greetings to the good people of Dipton. Must be fun to be so much in the news lately! I hope some local entrepreneurs are working out how to make good on all the free publicity. I’d expect Dipton’s high profile in the media to last a bit longer, as Bill English continues his belated attempts […]
Written By: - Date published: 8:39 am, October 2nd, 2009 - 78 comments
That last post was probably a bit dull for a Friday morning, so now for something completely different. I was a little surprised last night to see on Scoop the following worthy publication: Plain English – No. 2, 2009 Welcome to Plain English, my regular newsletter aimed at Clutha-Southland residents. It covers local issues as […]
Written By: - Date published: 10:39 am, September 30th, 2009 - 6 comments
subversifpoet sent us this song about our corrupt government:
Written By: - Date published: 12:05 pm, September 29th, 2009 - 5 comments
If you haven’t been able to see it yet or can’t get Triangle/Stratos, here’s a link to recent episodes of Bomber Bradbury’s War on News. It’s entertaining, accurate and educational all at once. Kind of like PBS only a bit more ‘informal’. It’s also pretty funny in parts and Bomber comes across as genuine and […]
Written By: - Date published: 12:07 pm, September 28th, 2009 - 21 comments
The Standard, 12 June 1940 WELLINGTON Prime Ministerial candidate for the Nationalists, Mr John Key, today laid out his party’s policy regarding New Zealand’s participation in the current War. “Let me state clearly and unequivocally that, despite our past position, my Party now believes wholeheartedly that the War must be fought. It is undeniably a […]
Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, September 28th, 2009 - 49 comments
Written By: - Date published: 5:23 pm, September 27th, 2009 - 9 comments
Leaked emails from the National Government’s Productivity Task Force have confirmed rumours circulating in senior journalist circles that the Tooth Fairy is to be sacked. The emails include statistical data and market research supplied by the Business Round Table which indicate that the Tooth Fairy costs New Zealand tax payers more than a quarter of […]
Written By: - Date published: 2:22 pm, September 27th, 2009 - 2 comments
A hilarious send up of Key that pretty much everyone would have missed because it aired on Nightline on Friday.
Written By: - Date published: 1:41 pm, September 26th, 2009 - 14 comments
And so ends a great day’s trading under the erstwhile eye of Mr Key. Looks like they won’t be inviting John back to give the opening bell at the NYSE.
Written By: - Date published: 9:21 am, September 26th, 2009 - 8 comments
The health care debate going on in America is a very serious debate, and who wins it has important implications for what kind of direction America takes from here (more in a later post perhaps). The Republican / Conservative / talk back radio framing of the debate is as dishonest as it is predictable. This […]
Written By: - Date published: 3:05 pm, September 25th, 2009 - 33 comments
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Written By: - Date published: 11:30 am, September 22nd, 2009 - 34 comments
It seems political scientists could learn a thing or two from anthropologists after all. “Neanderthals were not the gentle, almost-human creatures portrayed in the media over the last 50 years…“ No surprises there mate.
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 pm, September 21st, 2009 - 6 comments
The outage earlier this evening was due to the hosting company taking the server down.. We will be rebooting the host machine to update its kernel and apply some other fixes. The reboot will occur at approx 2200 PT (10pm Pacific time) on Sunday September 20th. Your server should be down for 5-10 minutes, we […]
Written By: - Date published: 3:55 pm, September 21st, 2009 - 20 comments
It’s kind of funny how in a year we’ve gone from expecting a Prime Minister to be hugely competent and across the details to being used to having a dude who everyone knows is just an actor, playing the part. The other week, Henry told Key that his coming appearance on The Letterman Show is […]
Written By: - Date published: 2:30 pm, September 20th, 2009 - 39 comments
One of these things is not the other, One of these things is not quite the same… Can you guess which one is not like the other, Can you tell me before I finish the game?
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, September 18th, 2009 - 19 comments
Found this gem at Fighting Talk. Lyndon Hood examines the act of leaking. Lyndon Hood: Act Doesn’t Feel Climate Heat Click to enlarge The Act party, in their minority report on the recent review of the emissions trading scheme, have argued that man-made global warming should not be considered a threat. Because they know better. […]
Written By: - Date published: 8:12 am, September 8th, 2009 - 7 comments
Yesterday Infratil got their NZ Bus hand-puppets to announce that they will be going on strike. On Wednesday, if the bus-drivers refuse to donate their time freely to increase Infratil returns to investors, the company will remove bus-services from the commuters of Auckland. If the reasonable attempts of the bus drivers to increase their wages […]
Written By: - Date published: 2:30 pm, September 7th, 2009 - 19 comments
Like r0b, I’m the new kid on The Standard’s block. Sounds like he got the cool initiation. I, on the other hand, had to go to a three hour meeting and, under brutal interrogation, denounce all my previous boyfriends with dubious political credentials. Plus they made me bring a plate. But I made it and […]
Written By: - Date published: 2:24 pm, September 6th, 2009 - 8 comments
In Ponsonby there is a bloody great big hole which is all that remains of the unlamented DYC Vinegar factory. It has been affording the locals some amusement between bouts in hearings. The site was to be a $250 million mall. The hole was dug last year. However it stopped abruptly when the development group […]
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