Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: The Day After Tomorrow, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
...a whole ‘Blue electorate’ with emasculated representation.
As Kim Dotcom discovered when he phoned John Banks from the Mount Eden lockup, there are few things more useless than an actual ACT MP.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Dennis Frank,
...the pros do it best.
Rather doubtful in this case. When someone feels the need to big-note their work online it only raises the probability that they got the job because they were cheap.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to simon g,
Please don't ban him. Keep providing the rope. It's going to be a slow news week in politics, so it might well interest some in the media to know that National's lying (sorry, masterful) ad campaign came from the furthest reaches of far right.
Calling a woman hysterical is effectively telling her to get a hysterectomy in order for her to be able to argue like a man. Instant witch trial. A few years ago someone was given the arse here for calling a female contributor a shrew. Perhaps if he'd had something newsworthy to brag about he'd have lasted longer.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to mpledger,
hysterical
Nice to see that I'm not the only one wondering what's happened to PAS's usually vigilant moderators. As the late Kim Fowley used to say, small boys got no part in this hustle.
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Access: The Driverless Road Ahead, in reply to ,
They could have been makeing small things out of silicon by now.
Like, teeny-weeny versions of these?
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Speaker: The Government lost the election, in reply to Caleb D'Anvers,
What I think is going on here is the bedding in of a kind of pop Social Darwinism, which blames the victims of neoliberalism for their own demise and, conversely, regards the trappings of material success earned through market activity as signs of spiritual election and moral authority.
I'm thinking Chloe Swarbrick. With her hipster/preppie dress style, Auckland mayoral race cred and straightforward way of drilling down to the heart of the matter, she is the new Infant Phenomenon in waiting.
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Hard News: Where are all the polls at?, in reply to ,
…and Epsom – what’s wrong with you people?
(is there something in the water?)They where told how to vote.
True, though for whatever it might be worth, Barry Humphries in a 1980s interview was moved to mention how he'd been struck by an overwhelming sense of sadness while driving through Epsom after dark. The existential hell of the grammar zone?
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Hard News: Where are all the polls at?, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Some problems with Australia's postal yes/no 'referendum'...
The unfailingly excellent David Rowe.
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bob daktari:
'Funkadelic - Reworked by Detroiters'
Wow thanks, I love that song, what a gorgeous treatment. It's a long-time favourite off the 1995 Funkronimicon reworking. Seems that this stuff gets a major rebore every 2 decades or thereabouts.
Ian Dalziel:Les Amazones de Guinée.
They are so cool, thanks for the heads up. A brief poke around YouTube shows that they also look spectacular in civvies.
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Hard News: The Day After Tomorrow, in reply to Tom Semmens,
I was talking to a young DINKY couple last night, always voted Green. Last Xmas at the height of the market they brought a modest two bedroom place at the height of the market.
They both voted already, for National. As he said, "we want to protect our investment".
Back in 2014 when the Greens launched their policy of cheap loans for home solar there was a sudden influx of self-declared new Green voters lauding the initiative on Facebook. However once the discussion turned to extending the policy to public housing it became apparent just which rock these fair-weather Green converts had emerged from beneath.
Poor people, they declared - and there was a surprising number voicing this opinion - couldn't be trusted with proper tech. What they didn't manage to munt they'd strip and sell. This mindset seems to be at large again in the recent rash of opinion pieces scolding the Greens for taking an interest in social justice, instead of tidily restricting themselves to ineffectually making polite noises about the environment. All appear to be the work of those who'd never vote Green in a blue fit, unless they were bribed with a fat interest-free loan for property improvement.