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U turns
Another gem from Tom Scott.
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Caption contest
Remember back in 2008 when David Farrar and Cameron Slater launched a set of billboards comparing Helen Clark to a series of dictators over big issues like which lightbulbs you could buy and a recommendation on low-flow shower heads? The funny thing is she'd never…
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A chilling vision of the future?
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Needs a caption?
From the Flicker pages of William Joyce, we have this cogent visual comment on Murray McCully. It has been suggested that when it comes to diplomacy, New Zealand's Foreign Minister and Minister for the Rugby World Cup, should take sometime to learn the skills necessary…
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PM punts for growth
Press release New Zealand Government Prime Minister John Key today conceded that growth remains too weak, unemployment is too high, and that it is unacceptable that workers' wages are going backwards when he promised they would match Australia's in just 15 years. Speaking to a…
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Mum & Dad investors keen to put a few mil in privatised assets
Kiwi* Dad Michael Fay and his wife Sarah announced today that they would be keen to invest in any SOEs the government privatises. "My old mate David Richwhite and myself made $500 million off the last round privatisation." said Fay, "It was a great success.…
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Party central
Emmerson's take on Party Central at The Herald:
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Blubbering into oblivion
I had to laugh at this comment by Mako about my least favorite wingnut... More desperate anti-Brown smearing from Slater. His latest allegation is that 'Looney Len' wants every school to plant 500 trees a year. A waste of our precious education budget! he wails.…
auckland supercity blogs humour local body elections making shit up
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World Cup according to genius bankers
Economists, bankers, Treasury officials, financial wizards of various kinds, they like to pretend that they know what they're talking about. All too often they don't. There's a reason economics is called the "dismal science". There's a reason why their predictions are usually about as accurate…
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God, she writes like she talks
TVOne reports: Claims by Social Development Minister Paula Bennett that increasing the cost of tobacco could result in family violence are "pure speculation" according to one expert. In official papers released to ONE News, it's emerged Bennett had concerns in February there would be an…
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Mummy! The bad man cut my pre-school’s funding!
John Key had a busy day playing rodeo-clown yesterday. Before having the Air Force fly him to Ohakune for the opening of 16 whole kilometres of cycleway (which, btw, was already in the works before the John Key Memorial Cycleway was a twinkle in Kevin…
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If real life were more like the internet…
Ring any bells? Tom Tommorrow at Salon is a great satirical cartoonist, for more of his work have a look at This Modern World.
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Key bullish on Kiwi, bearish on pandas
Itching to get back into the markets, and having solved all New Zealand's economic and social woes in 18 short months, John Key has announced he is putting aside his Prime Ministierial duties to become the country's head trader in exotic animals. Speaking on Breakfast…
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That’s… odd
I was looking through the physical versions of this weeks' newspapers for something yesterday. I don't normally do that and I saw some bloody odd stuff. In the Dom on Tuesday, they said the PM had asked his staff if he could stay in South…
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The media
Today's xkcd. What do you think?
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Numbers I pulled out of my arse show Brown unhurt by Nat smears
My new poll shows Len Brown will get 90% of the vote. Even though the survey is unscientific and consisted of a self-selected group most of whom think like me, it provides an interesting take on the two weeks of intense political and media scrutiny…
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Canterbury government in exile
Since the fall of Canterbury to the newly installed dictatorial regime, a few of the deposed representatives have escaped the closing net and set up a government in exile. Vowing to "continue to serve you in your region", this ragged band will fight to keep…
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Senator Alvin Greene?
Alvin Greene is an unemployed military veteran who received an involuntary discharge and is currently on felony p0rnography charges. He has a degree but seems a bit, um, challenged. He received 60% of the vote in the Democratic Primary for South Carolina senator, despite having…
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Labour concedes 2011 election
Press Release From the Labour Party In a short statement outside the Beehive today Labour leader Phil Goff conceded the 2011 election to National. "Colin Espiner has already called the election for National" said Goff. "When a truly neutral tory like Colin describes Labour's 'faint…
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Boston Globe leads on tailored content
Did you know Editing the Herald is back? It is and James is as incisive and witty as ever. Easily the funniest blog in New Zealand. This isn't about one of his posts though, sampling them doesn't do them justice. Instead, it's a hilarious clip…
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Lazy Sunday viewing: viral video chart
Straight from the Guardian - I loved the range (and left-field nature of this selection) so decided to share it here! From Jemima Kiss' blog: Warning, limited overt NZ political content. There's the odd day when I think I might be bored of Lady Gaga…
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A big hand for DPF
Blogging obsessives (we know who we are) are probably aware of a harmless bit of fun, The Air New Zealand Best Blog Award. Dissatisfied with the astroturf of the Qantas Media Awards 2010 blog selection, a shadowy cabal calling themselves "The NZ Bloggers Union" set…
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Domesticated
Amongst all the budget reaction, there is a group of people that I don't understand. They are the small group who are very well off, and who are nevertheless exulting about tax cuts that give them a few tens of dollars a week. Is your…
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Tax ‘swap’ needed to keep National MPs in NZ
Finance Minister Bill English today announced tax cuts worth $340,000* for National MPs on their Parliamentary salaries alone. "I'm very pleased we could announce this gift, ah, fair alteration of the tax system. There was a real danger that New Zealand could have lost the…
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Grateful poor to thank rich for trickle down wealth
It is befitting that the 27st of May just one week after the Budget - marks Thank The Rich Day, which sees poor people the length of the country gearing up to offer their gratitude to the rich for their contribution to the welfare of…
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More dim bulbs
Yesterday I posted on John Key being named "Dim bulb of the week" by the San Francisco Examiner. Continuing with a dim bulb theme - let's talk about Edison Hour. You'll recall (I hope!) that Earth Hour is an annual event, a world wide action…
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An addicted technophobe; a politician
Apparently, President Obama has delivered a speech 'ranting' against technology. The opinion in The Economist is worth a read just for the joy of reading the hilarity between the lines. 'WITH iPods and iPads and Xboxes and PlayStations—none of which I know how to work—information…
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Caption Contest
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Murdering thieves ‘joke’ clouds Treaty talks
Already embroiled in a fraught Treaty settlement with the Crown, Tamati Kruger seems to have made things worse with an inopportune joke. "The good news tonight is that I was having dinner with my whanau as opposed to with the representatives of the Crown in…
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PM’s Technical Advisory
Prime Minister John Key has released a multimedia demonstration prepared by his Technical Advisory Panel to explain why, despite election 'promises', New Zealand will not be getting ultra-fast broadband any time soon under National. Yes folks, like John Key's Magical Cycleway To Salvation, there are…