Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Judicial caprice is no way to…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
lawyers have choices.
So I'd imagined. Given the muted level of outrage from legal quarters when Clayton Weatherston's learned friends enabled - and presumably encouraged - his defence of provocation, I'm wondering if they would be defended as "just doing their job". There are times when it seems one would have to be less than human not to imagine a special circle of hell just for that kind of excessive "creativity".
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We don't even need to search for convictions for violent and anti-social offences which have attracted lesser sentences, although there are too many of those to count.
Indeed. Still, I confess myself utterly gobsmacked by the discrepancy between van Gaalen's sentencing and this.
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Hard News: Sectarian Bloodlust 2.0, in reply to chris,
Spy boss Rebecca Kitteridge goes on a recruiting drive
'She put herself through the assessment process to get a taste of what would-be recruits were faced with. It included role playing, where she had to enter a room, strike up a conversation with its occupants and "elicit certain information from people" in a way that did not raise any red flags with them.'
Jesus freaking wept. Is one allowed to wonder if she was wearing a burqa?
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Dumb luck is not a manifesto.
IMHE those who happen to be favoured by dumb luck tend to see their situation as evidence of a functioning meritocracy.
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to SHG,
Seriously, this is the problem. I'm an interested literate politically-aware correspondent asking for a definition of inequality and why I should care, and no-one has yet been able to provide one.
The - or your - problem is you're auctioning your intellectual virginity and no-one's come anywhere near the reserve?
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Polity: Too much to swallow on the TPP, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Dr Mapp is a smart man
If he's so smart, how come he let the hapless Don Brash make him wear a clown suit?
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It's now two years since CTU President Helen Kelly welcomed the Warehouse's claimed intention to pay its workers the living wage. While nobody much likes a party pooper, it would appear that in this case the red sheds' social justice initiative was little more than window dressing.
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to Sacha,
If sticking by principles is not important to you, people notice that you can not be trusted. Who knew?
In the early days of the Lange Government there was a bit of impotent spluttering from the oppostion over Labour implementing National's policies. I think it was Denis Welch who noted that, despite years of Muldoonist interventionism, much of the Douglas 'reforms' was National's claimed policy, even if they'd only "kept it garaged and taken it out for the occasional Sunday drive".
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to BenWilson,
I'd say that his comment was tongue in cheek
You get a bit of that here too.
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Speaker: Why we need to stop talking…, in reply to BenWilson,
He shamefacedly admitted that he was the head of the politics department at a University. The other guy didn’t even bat an eyelid, he patted him on the arm and just said “Well, you’d never have known”, and they carried on without pause into other subjects. The funny part of the story is that the professor felt it was one of the greatest compliments he’d ever received in his life.
This is what the intellectual left struggles with.
Sounds like the good professor assuaged his struggle by cruising for a little intellectual rough trade. Chris Trotter's built a career out of it.
