Public Address | Cafe | Busytown: Good as gold

Peter Alsop

Sun, 21 Sept 2014 22:14:34 +1200

Really enjoyed this review thx Jolissa – beautifully written and engaging throughout. Prosperity requires (enough) equality, no doubt. I've sometimes wondered, though, whether the inequality debate is slavishly focussed on incomes (accepting their high importance), without consideration of a wider set of factors that may be relevant, such as social…

Rob Stowell

Sat, 20 Sept 2014 12:45:43 +1200

Thanks Jolissa. Something to keep thinking about. Because whoever win the election, we're going to have to work hard to change things – maybe starting by changing the narrative.

Nora Leggs

Sat, 20 Sept 2014 08:02:28 +1200

These beehives – some qualities we should be aiming for in our own beehive?

And today, I’m hoping for a miracle, something to restore the gold to this grey spring, and some heart to our country.

Hebe

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 21:39:50 +1200

Elegant and mellifluous writing Jolisa. Democracy on toast. Now democracy roast, blackened at the edges but rescuable with a sharp knife, a steady hand and a soupcon of Mickey Savagery.

BenWilson

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 18:39:15 +1200

And no I don't know the answer.

dr/dt = -v, where r is radius, t is time, and v is some positive viciousness constant. Solving: r(t) = A*exp(-v*t). Give me any r,t pair and we can find A

andin

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 17:01:22 +1200

I just hope the govt changes is all.
That's my short term hope.
three more years of teamkey
hmmm I will disappear

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 16:52:54 +1200

Cartoons by Sharon Murdoch, like this one.
That was great, funny though, it was slightly different in The Press
(see above)

and Michele A'Court has been on fire!

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 16:26:03 +1200

halo, halo, halo...
And no I don’t know the answer
don't worry something will gel...
what gooeys a round
comes around.

Bart Janssen

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 16:16:31 +1200

Paul Brislen tweeted this today
https://twitter.com/goking5/status/512256368380616704/photo/1
Which we agreed was a good metaphor for the election.

Sorry I couldn't figure out how to either embed the tweet or just get the image to display :(

Bart Janssen

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 16:08:22 +1200

I remember reading about this a while ago and thinking we could really do with that here in NZ. While I understand and accept that the top job carries responsibilities and liabilities that are genuinely onerous I don't see any real justification for allowing the gap between top and bottom…

Bart Janssen

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 16:00:48 +1200

Apropos of nothing at all, I kept reading this sentence
what’s the radius of a vicious circle?
as
what's the radius of a viscous circle

And no I don't know the answer.

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 15:22:54 +1200

I see that the Shirley Library no longer carries New Scientist, let's throw the whole suburb to the luddites... grrr

But seriously, small cuts like that impact on the reinforcing of ideas or enthusiasms.

JacksonP

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 15:13:15 +1200

The Inequality launch was an eye opener for me in many ways. It seems so long ago, in the morass of this election.

On current form, we have a long way to go in learning to care for each other, and striving for a more equitable society.

Holding on to…

Jolisa

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 15:03:51 +1200

(I wished I could have embedded those tweets and a few choice images from Promoting Prosperity – will be away from the keyboard to vote, but back in a while to fix that and see how it's all going).

Public Address

Fri, 19 Sept 2014 15:03:51 +1200

Discussion from blog post.