Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: The Next Act, in reply to TracyMac,
This past couple of weeks of pre-obits has been incredibly irritating. I think the only day when there wasn’t a story was the day before he actually passed away.
Yup. I'm sorry for sounding like an utter bitch, but I don't think I need to hear Mike Williams retelling the story of how they rolled the executive of the Victoria University Drama Club ever again.
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Ease up, Josie. We all have to reach our own accord with mortality, and if Holmes in his final days found that in the idea of God, that’s his business and his right. I fail to see how it’s “vile”.
Quite. Holmes consented to sit for an interview, but Sunday made the call to broadcast it. They could have decided it was in bad taste or could have caused distress and embarrassment to third parties. They didn’t, and so it goes.
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Up Front: In Committee, in reply to Paul Campbell,
And you thought Woodhouse would do something?
Well, yes. Part of the chief whip's job is to actually enforce discipline and decorum both in the House and from members on Select Committees. Ideally, I would have liked Bakshi subbed out of the committee full stop and period. But I’m reliably informed he was told clearly and firmly to pull his head in; not just by the chief whip but by one or two folks in the party hierarchy who will have a non-trivial influence on his list ranking, As a practical matter, I can live with that.
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Up Front: In Committee, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
I’d rather be yelled at.
As Michael Kinsey once said of the first President Bush: "He’s nice enough not to want to be associated with a nasty remark but not nice enough not to make it. Lacking the courage of one’s nastiness does not make one nice.."
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Up Front: In Committee, in reply to Kumara Republic,
"The heavy air was charged with emotion and I am still astounded that I managed to walk towards that table and chair despite apprehension and feeling sick at heart at my different treatment and the apparent hostility," she said.
Well, Grace, welcome to the world a metric fuckton of GLBT people and their families live in every damn time they're casually equated to child molesters and animal-fuckers. I'd be the first to call Hague out if he was bullying anti-marriage equality submitters, but I'm not seeing it here.
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The latter is perfectly polite and accidentally gives me the perfect opening to talk about the social and institutional ways civil unions are treated as second-class. Cheers, dude, that was awesome.
Yeah, I fucking hope so. I wasn’t the only person who politely suggested to National’s senior whip Michael Woodhouse that Bakshi be told to either pull his head or get subbed off the committee after this performance.
Still, thanks for fronting up, Emma. I’m still perfectly OK with my decision to withdraw my request to speak to my submission because I’d still have told someone to take their heterosexist privilege and fuck themselves in a procreative and traditional manner. I’m too old to put up with this bullshit.
And, no, I can't laugh at Church Dude's crap after being told I was only welcome at my grandmother's funeral if I came by myself. That wasn't funny - it was profoundly abusive.
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Speaker: Queen City: A Secret History of…, in reply to nzlemming,
We will, however, have the communities we want to have, not the refuges we've been forced to inhabit on the outskirts in the past. So it's up to us to decide what it is we want.
THIS! I'm not going to pretend 2012 New Zealand is Homo-topia, but having a significantly older partner -- you know, who lived the good old days where being outed out see you unemployed and homeless with jack shit you could do about it -- can be a *cough* useful corrective to excessive romanticism about the fabulous past.
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Hard News: The mathematics of marriage, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Was there anyone that seriously thought civil unions were anything but a nose-under-the-tent for marriage equality?
Well, perhaps I’m a naive old whoopsie but I took the folks who went hither and yon saying that same-sex marriage was totally unnecessary because civil unions were effectively the same thing at face value, and criticized them for it.
And I’ll continue to pay the same courtesy to Louisa Wall, who the likes of McCoskrie and Colin Craig are perfectly happy to passive-aggressively call a liar.
This is probably being tediously literal minded, but could anyone point me to a single jurisdiction where same-sex civil marriage is legal along with polygamy, incest and bestiality? (Funny how McCoskrie and Colin Craig are keeping the more absurd pillars of anti-marriage equality slippery slope-ism on the downlow.) Hell, a serious attempt to make it legal to marry your same-sex sibling and a whole litter of house cats would do.
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The fact is that prosecutorial discretion – which in the case of drugs often means the inconsistent and arbitrary application of the law – is the thing that keeps prohibition viable. If the law was fully and equally applied, it would not be viable. It’s selective prosecution that allows politicians like Collins to insist there is no problem.
Also, would be fair to say that if it was fully and equally applied some of the folks Collins worked with before she entered Parliament might have had considerable difficulty getting a practising certificate? I don't know, and its not really any of my business but I can't help wondering if some of my acquaintances would have had *cough* a slightly different experience of getting pinched with naughty baccy or a skin-full if they weren't articulate, white university students.
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I'm hearing a lot of allegations of conflict of interest being thrown around, and I'm not entirely sure it means what some people think it means.
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