Written By: - Date published: 2:40 pm, June 19th, 2015 - 23 comments
It’s not what you think…
Written By: - Date published: 3:23 pm, June 17th, 2015 - 41 comments
Shocking news I think you’ll agree.
Written By: - Date published: 4:26 pm, June 12th, 2015 - 13 comments
White Man Behind A Desk on the death of government, social bonds, and more. Perfect for a Friday!
Written By: - Date published: 8:02 am, May 31st, 2015 - 13 comments
Quiet Sunday morning? Check out White Man Behind a Desk.
Written By: - Date published: 4:38 pm, May 20th, 2015 - 29 comments
Andrew Little in Parliament being all poetic about the night before budget day.
Written By: - Date published: 10:56 am, May 15th, 2015 - 142 comments
David Farrar has a bad case of STD (Standard Titillation Disorder).
Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, May 14th, 2015 - 24 comments
Pulling ponytails and calling people names – I guess it’s true, the PM is 11 years old.
Written By: - Date published: 7:18 pm, May 4th, 2015 - 24 comments
The search engine on this site is run by Sphinx search. This is an open source general purpose package that runs a scan on the databases amended posts or comments. However it appeared to have caused Cameron Slater to cum all over his brain and shut down even the minimal amounts of animal cunning that he usually possesses.
Written By: - Date published: 9:30 am, May 4th, 2015 - 85 comments
On Radio NZ this morning John Key gave an interview that was cringe-worthy, defensive and accidently hilarious. The man is a joke … and not even an original one.
Written By: - Date published: 1:00 pm, April 24th, 2015 - 114 comments
Keep it seemly!
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 am, April 18th, 2015 - 28 comments
Well worth a watch even if some do not necessarily agree with it. Hat tip Adam.
Written By: - Date published: 12:00 pm, April 11th, 2015 - 86 comments
Head of Mediaworks Mark Weldon and his mate John. Be nice about it …
Written By: - Date published: 5:48 pm, April 2nd, 2015 - 24 comments
Turns out that “Planet Key” is not an election advertisement after all.
Written By: - Date published: 11:22 am, April 1st, 2015 - 15 comments
The Standardista Collective today announced plans for a massive new media venture, Fruukd.
Written By: - Date published: 9:31 am, March 21st, 2015 - 32 comments

Written By: - Date published: 6:31 am, March 13th, 2015 - 48 comments
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it’s called Life.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent
Written By: - Date published: 4:01 pm, March 9th, 2015 - 115 comments

Written By: - Date published: 1:23 pm, March 1st, 2015 - 85 comments
Now that I can no longer call myself young, the old adage that younger people simply lack concentration does appear to me to be correct. I look to the numbers on The Standard to see if there is a correlation and if I can argue a causation based on age. Are the younger readers without concentration, or are they just busy…
Written By: - Date published: 9:02 am, February 16th, 2015 - 14 comments
Dave Armstrong at The Dom Post has written a very funny piece on the SkyCity fiasco, and in the process coined the immortal phrase “The SkySore”.
Written By: - Date published: 7:47 pm, February 10th, 2015 - 31 comments
Well ok, after the election I figured that I could shift the site to some slower storage with a whole lot of redundancy in a RAID6 array of slower drives. We’d have a lot fewer readers than our peak for 6 months after post election, right? Nope – wrong. You are making me work…
Written By: - Date published: 3:50 pm, January 28th, 2015 - 31 comments
Sexist right-wingers are lining up to abuse Eleanor Catton for speaking her mind. The odious Sean Plunket is the worst, calling Catton a “hua” (sounds like and sometimes defined as “whore”). Imperator Fish responds…
Written By: - Date published: 1:31 pm, January 16th, 2015 - 15 comments
It makes for great reading and throws the net wider than last time… just Check it out here
Written By: - Date published: 3:08 pm, December 19th, 2014 - 67 comments
Keep it seemly …
Written By: - Date published: 1:58 pm, December 10th, 2014 - 85 comments
The normal rules apply.
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