Posts by Joe Wylie
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Up Front: Card on the Table, in reply to
My (liberal bubble) Twitter feed agrees that the winner of the night was Chris Auchinvole, who hugely impressed me on the select committee.
Thanks for that. Auchinvole was also pretty impressive at the time of the passing of the CERA legislation.
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If the Press's readers are as dumb as it appears to assume they are, do they deserve to live? A sometime insurance industry employee poses as a happy quake-affected homeowner, complete with borderline kiddie-pimped toddler. If it wasn't for the bubblehead corporate claptrap tone of the piece, and the fact that a couple of his victims recognised him, he just might have gotten away with it.
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Capture: Great Southern Land, in reply to
Saleyards gallery from 2009 by Brendon Keenan.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to
the shameful lack of viable alternative representatives to vote for
Alternatives? Like with ECAN effectively abolished, and the rush to push projects through while CERA is still an effective dictatorship?
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to
It is easy in Christchurch to forget that the rest of NZ and much of the world is in economic crisis:
Except the convention centred cargo cult isn't a Christchurch-originated phenomenon. While it has its local cheer squad, like so much of the bureaucratic refuse that have been drawn to the "rebuild", it's been largely foisted upon us from outside.
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Capture: Great Southern Land, in reply to
Three nice ones there Jackson. Definitely a different eye.
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Capture: Great Southern Land, in reply to
On my blog Episodic Table.
Thanks!
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"Methylphenidate was first synthesized in 1944 . . . by Ciba (now Novartis) chemist Leandro Panizzon. His wife, Marguerite, had low blood pressure and would take the drug as a stimulant before playing tennis. He named the substance Ritaline, after his wife's nickname, Rita."
As Lou Reed said, those were different times.
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Hard News: When the drug warriors turn, in reply to
You could still get a buzz off it.
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Hard News: When the drug warriors turn, in reply to
Anyone remember the little benzedrine nasal inhalers that were used in the 50s and 60s?
Presumably you're referring to those little items sold as Benzedrex. Still available in the US, but banned here in the early 2000s. You'd have to be very old indeed to remember when they contained real benzedrine. Despite the misleading name, by the end of the 50s the active ingredient was the P-like propylhexedrine. As you say, don't bullshit the kids.