Posts by Russell Brown
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Maybe it is just us liberal malcontents who like the Daily Show. Eveyone else is wathcing Fox on Prime.
Or 24/7 on Sky. But Fox News is bleeding viewers every month in the US - it's really looking like its golden years are rapidly departing.
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That said, it was in the TV listings, shouldn't that be enough :-)
Even the in-house listings queen didn't pick it up. Understandable when they're still promoting it like it's the old global edition version. Jeez, I think I'd be making a song and dance about finally getting access to the daily version straight off the satellite ...
I checked last night and it screened with two hours of the torrent going up on Mininova. That's great!
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Considered a bit risque ...
Written & directed by Raj Patel, cinematography by Stuart Page, edited by Jonathan Venz.
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Um, the NZ Post farrago actually happened in Hamilton. And Key said it happened in Hamilton.
That's really poor.
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Did I miss something? C4 is screening actual daily episodes of The Daily Show, Tuesday to Friday, at 10pm. And it's doing it in timely fashion: basically, it screens here around the same time Americans see it. This is very cool. Quite why they haven't bothered to tell anyone, I don't know. Maybe they don't know themselves: all the C4 promos give the impression it's the global edition, but it isn't, it's the proper one.
And it's on series link for MySky. I don't have to download The Daily Show any more. Freaky.
PS: The first series of Chappelle's Show is on the same nights at 9.30.
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But hell, I've just seen I/S on norightturn defending the Labour Party's poverty figures against National, despite when the Social Report came out last year, him leaping on the same rise in the 'extreme poverty' figure that Key is weilding, and bashing Labour round the head with it (as did I in the SST). I'm actually fairly pleased with this week's 'work for dole'/'underclass' punts by the Maori Party and National, because at least it's bringing these issues to the fore for (if we're lucky) parties to compete over on policy points. Maybe it'll make Labour try harder. We can only hope.
I agree. Key identified a real problem that's manifest in a range of areas, including education, where our best students are amongst the best in the world, and our worst fail to an extent that's unacceptable.
(I'm less exercised over the apparent boom in youth crime, although somewhat despairing that no journalist seems capable of connecting demographic shifts and changes in crime patterns. The youth crime wave was both predicted and predictable. There are more youth.)
I just don't have much faith in the solutions advanced this week by either the Maori Party or John Key. Forcing vulnerable people to work for less than the minimum wage won't do it. And the idea that private charity and well-meaning businesses can do the heavy lifting of social agencies isn't much more than a slogan.
One obvious component of a solution to the number of families in "extreme hardship" is to give people enough to live on. But Labour will never do that if it means offering National a political advantage, and National will just never do that.
It's worth considering how horrible things would have become if Labour hadn't abolished market rents on public housing (the stats on the proportion of income going into housing costs are a genuine success story), and halted the unfortunate experiments in education policy (we tend to forget how many schools serving poor communities were basically on the brink at the end of the 90s). The employment statistics are for real too. My gut feeling is that the focus on primary health care will pay off too (despite what right-wing bloggers think, elective surgery waiting lists are not the only issue in public health).
But there's an unpleasant problem with a remaining underclass that Labour is finding to be either intractable or politically unapproachable. If someone can really turn that around, I'd be very happy.
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Including a fabric print by Public Address Great NZ Argument contributor ARD Fairburn!
Heh. "Contributor" sounds like I went round to see Rex with a flagon of sherry and convinced him to giz something for my book.
I wish ...
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After all, Mad Ave was literally erased - perhaps McGehan Close could bloom into Vodafone Parade.
I never visited Mad Ave, but I increasingly get the impression that comparisons between it and McGehan Close are preposterous. The major reason for its namecheck seems to be that it is in Helen Clark's electorate.
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Thanks Merc. I live not far away, so I thought I'd actually pop over and beat John Key there. You''l know this, but for others, McGehan Close is a pocket of state housing in a cul de sac in Mt Albert: mostly modern well-kept townhouses, with a 60s-vintage block of pensioner flats at one end. The pensioner flats are being upgraded at the moment, as are the footpaths. It doesn't look like a slum: I lived in far worse places in London, and the houses are in much better nick than the older Housing New Zealand properties in my street.
OTOH, there was broken glass crunching under my wheels as I turned around, which might be testament to the local youth crime problem.
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Yeah, really Robyn, I know some folk who are going and I just don't know what the fuck the criteria were.
To some extent, luck, and the logic you'd apply in inviting a mix of party guests: if it was done on pure merit I'd never have been invited to Foo in the US last year. It's a relatively small gathering and people do miss out. I put forward some of the names, but not everyone could be accommodated.
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