No. Not Pete George. Instead Andrew Geddis appears to be up to his neck in the mire of organising “Debating ‘Dirty Politics’: Media, Politics and Law”, at a ‘scholarly’ debate on Friday from 1pm-4pm. It is a long-winded scholarly debate inside work hours. But it will be streamed on youtube and hopefully not only live.
Amnesia is a song about the John Banks donation saga in New Zealand – from “MrKimDotcom” on YouTube. Help it go viral…
Great video of Clayton Cosgrove getting right stuck into the Sensible Sentencing Trust’s Garth McVicar over his hypocrisy on David Garrett. Cosgrove’s certainly no bleeding heart liberal so I’d say McVicar’s credibility on law in order is now pretty much shot.
The Yes Men have become famous for impersonating people and organisations in an effort to make political points. They’re now being sued by […]
Halfcaste interviews a selection of Young Nats at their recent conference. Interviewer: “What’s your favourite tribe?” Young Nat: “To be honest I don’t […]
“The Bechdel test†requires a movie to pass three questions:
1) Does it have two or more women in it (who have names)?
2) Do they talk to one another?
3) Do they talk to one another about something other than a man?
This two minute video explains…
You may have noticed that we’ve taken to offering Labour a little unsolicited comms advice of late. Irish recently told them to get some […]
UPDATE: The Pink Batts original is youtubed here.
Yep, that’s a pusy Roger Douglas zombie eye staring at you. Ew.
Stuff reports that “a British commercial for a chocolate bar featuringThe A Team star Mr T has been pulled over concerns it could cause offence […]
So you’ve seen Obama’s Yes We Can music video; here’s the McCain response:
Just received this parody of Hillary Clinton’s 3am ad, but with a New Zealand twist. Very funny.
Greenwoman just flicked us this:
(Via BoingBoing.net)
Sarah Montague from BBC’s Hardtalk interviews Helen Clark – starting with a question about whether the time might be right for a New […]
A reader just sent us this – REM meets John Key. (Hat-tip: PJ)
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 […]
One of the most interesting questions from the audience at the Stiglitz interview in Wellington last week was whether he thought we were […]
Following a_y_b’s post about the deliciously punny Yes, Pecan! ice cream, we’ve found some more Obama-flavoured silliness which is also, incidentally, the best […]
Richard Wagstaff from the PSA was interviewed by Sunrise on John Key’s plan to undermine the public service this morning. He notes Key’s […]
Now to be perfectly honest I’ve never really thought that seven sins was enough. I was delighted to see that the Vatican has […]
