Unparliamentary Language
“His brain could revolve inside a peanut shell for a thousand years without touching the sides”
humour
A little humour
Jon Stewart on the Republican plan
“The Republicans appear to have a very clear plan for America…” Stewart on fire and funny.
Key Announces National’s Job’s Policy.
‘Allo, Allo, Allo, Allo – Based on the 1980’s Comedy Series, “Allo, allo” – Starring Cameron Slater as Rene and Judith Collins as […]
Where the fuck is Webb Ellis
Very, very funny. Where the fuck is Webb Ellis? hat tip: Trevor Mallard at Red Alert
An afternoon excursion.
About now or very shortly, Trevor Mallard and Cameron Slater should be dismounting from the cycling race that has obsessively awaited by the right on the blogosphere. I’ve been aware of that this ‘political’ event was going to happen because of the frequent waffling that shows up on posts from the right. But it was nice day – I went along to exercise the car and to see the start.
Update: Trevor won..
Tucker’s law
Tucker’s law (not at all suitable for those offended by strong language).
The pragmatist
The day there was no news
Daily Show on the Pollies
The Daily Show’s John Oliver goes behind the scenes at the Pollies, the US awards ceremony for political ad consultants. Hilarious. Watch the […]
Who do you want answering the phone?
Just received this parody of Hillary Clinton’s 3am ad, but with a New Zealand twist. Very funny.
National on personal attacks
Greenwoman just flicked us this:
Bad Comics
So, one internet comic writer challenged another internet comic writer to draw 200 bad comics and this was the result. Awesome on so […]
Flat-Earthers heart climate change deniers
The Climate Science Coalition is the last of a dying breed; a rabid, climate change denying lobby group. Of late, they have been performing a desperate, last-ditch attempt […]
Blogger sweatshop
(Via BoingBoing.net)
John Key – The Gambler
A reader’s just sent us the lyrics to the song sung at Labour Party social and again at the conference as reported in […]
Too stupid for words
I’m not usually big on the Bush-bashing, but this is classic: Say what you like about Reagan, at least the dude could read […]
Sir Ed and Helen Clark – admired Kiwis
From the Sunday Star Times: A new poll suggests that National Leader John Key may be up against a bigger obstacle than he thought in […]
John Key’s DVD: Take 2
Our sources tell us National is set to follow-up to last year’s DVD ‘John Key: Vacuous for New Zealand’ with its sequel ‘John […]
Didn’t take long
A reader just sent us this – REM meets John Key. (Hat-tip: PJ)
Lockwood: unsurprisingly relaxed about global warming
“Frankly, it’s a market”
That’s what Key said when asked about his plan to increase GP fees. A reader reckons Key’s planning to apply the same market […]
When good ads go bad
From Stuff: Details of a massive home loan scam targeting buyers in South Auckland have emerged involving former Westpac mortgate manager Amar Singh. […]
Clarke and Dawe on the sub-prime crisis
Steve posted a stick-figure explanation of the sub-prime mortgage crisis earlier in the week. Here are ABC commedians Clarke and Dawe giving their […]
‘Try the dead rat, it’s delicious’
Hat tip: Chris S in the comments.
John Ansell’s reverse Midas touch
Oh dear. It started with Roger Douglas and now political ad-man John Ansell has got on board the ACT train to electoral oblivion […]
Sabotaged truck under labour
Earlier this week a reader drew our attention to Michael Hansen, a candidate in the recent local elections who drew 423 votes in […]
Dream of sliding to work?
Google have just opened a new European engineering headquarters in Switzerland, according to a report from the BBC: “Dotcom companies were defined by […]
Yes, Pecan!
Ben and Jerry’s icecream endorsed Obama when Edwards pulled out. To celebrate Obama’s win in Vermont, Slate recently ran a competition to name […]
Some free publicity for the NBR
Speaking of humour, that joke of a newspaper the NBR has had a crack at us again. According to them The Standard is […]
Herald Editorial – ‘Why assets sales were worthwhile’
Tomorrow – ‘Slavery: it wasn’t so bad when you think about it’
Pythonesque
According to the Herald some people marched down Queen Street against the Electoral Finance Act on Saturday. Apparently they were protesting the removal […]
Someone really needs to do this with Winston’s speech
Well, I think it’s funny.
Moore than you can chew
Madness is a key ingredient in politics. Always has been. J’accuse. Far queues. I think, therefore I am. Martin Luther King went to […]
Romney humiliates self, white people everywhere
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s not the first aspiring leader to try and present himself as ‘down with the bros’, but this is […]
Daily Show on financial news
Jon Stewart had a good piece last night on why we shouldn’t just trust the economic and financial “experts”. People deserve better from […]