Posts by Joe Wylie
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Polity: Poll Soup, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Fairfax still trying to grow their own Steve Braunias.
'The Braunias that wouldn't die'?
Perhaps it's their practice of slapping on a big fat "Satire" label - or sometimes not. Is it something they leave up to the subs?
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Polity: Poll Soup, in reply to andin,
So Guy Williams ? Is he on TV or something? Is this an attempt at a joke? If it is its pretty lousy.
Fairfax still trying to grow their own Steve Braunias.
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Hard News: Friday Music: You are among friends, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Now what about that other ‘icon of obsolescence’ – 8-track tapes
Never saw a real 8-track cartridge until I got to Australia at the start of the 70s. Oh wow! Do they, like, have 8 channels? Anyway there they were in second-hand record shops, only you never saw new ones for sale.
One day down next to the giant Ampol filling station in Woolloomooloo I stumbled upon the motherlode - a whole store that sold nothing but 8-track cartridges, catering to truckers. In those pre-Dolby cassette days, before proper car stereos, only truckers seemed to be into mobile sound. The selection was pretty depressing, but there was a giant billboard outside featuring Jerry Reed, the man who put the funk into country.
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Hard News: UNGASS and the "Drug Free…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Much like on Stuff and masthead sites (and elsewhere) – many ignore the article (or maybe just the headline and first para get parsed) and leap straight in to the commentariat flow…
Straight to the vomitorium.
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Hard News: So what now?, in reply to Moz,
You can look at the invidious choices Christchurch City Council has had to make over the last few years as a comparison, and that just makes the whiny toddlers in Auckland look worse. Faced with an actual dictator who was determined to implement National's agenda, they fought basically every step of the way.
Presumably you're talking about the post-Bob Parker City Council. Whatever long political game Lianne Dalziel is currently engaged in, she still occasionally emerges to give the impression that she hasn't yet succumbed to the standard Party insider's contempt for ordinary stakeholders as nuisance policial amateurs.
When you get an old Labour grandee longing for the good old days when dissenters were strung up by their thumbs, working outside the constraints of Party alignments seems like a sensible strategy to constructively outflank a dictator:
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Labour MP Jim Anderton agreed that Butler should have been charged, saying the decision not to do so was "outrageous"."It's not just because he's a minister - throwing things at people is not a good idea, and it's not legal to do it, so why don't we exercise the law?"
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Up Front: Five, in reply to Steve Barnes,
What a caring country we are becoming under the enlightened leadership of the wonderful John, bloody, Key and pals.
Even the sainted Andrew's instincts seem to have led to his siding with the political class over earthquake victims. He appears to have learnt nothing from Labour's disastrous Christchurch results at the last election (Hint - don't presume to judge or talk down to people who may have experienced something you plainly didn't).
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Up Front: Five, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Just in case anyone was wondering what happened to Warwick Isaacs (he who led the CCDU for the Government)
I remember. CERA scored Wokka from Timaru, at around the time that Gerry was calling His Bobness a clown. Strange days, still stranger...
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Up Front: Five, in reply to Robert Urquhart,
my photos from the We've Had Enough rally on Sunday.
Thank you. I see that the City Council had a special Sunday team turn up once the rally was over to remove any traces of chalk messages, making everything pristine for yesterday's "proper" event. Presumably the weeds sprouting from the cracks between the pavers in the fenced-off area in front of the former Stabucks (ex-post office) continue to flourish unmolested.
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Access: Social media, disability…, in reply to walrus,
274 comments! Wonder how many of them are merely saying "pretty much everywhere else does this too"?
It's hard to come away from that without the sense that there's at least one organised clobbering machine infesting the Guardian's comments these days. One commenter, GreenExerciseAddict, raised the disturbing memory of Shahraz Kiane, whose daughter was refused entry to Australia because she suffered from cerebral palsy. Kiane died after setting himself alight outside parliament in Canberra in May 2001.
At the time it seemed yet another heartless excess from the Howard Government, which only three months later blatantly evaded its human rights responsibilities by denying the Tampa refugees entry to Australia. At the time of the Clark Government's intervention on the refugees' behalf it was still possible to believe that this country would never follow suit. Now, not so much.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
our own Lord of the Rings Knight Peter Jackson, dressed like Baggins, waving a dildo flag
The Lovely Boner?
