I’ve found reference to an exemption but nothing about a repeal, links welcome Rich. I wonder how much more dangerous a Pike River recovery would be compared to other activities our military might engage in.

Alcohol is processed out of the system by your liver relatively quickly and effectively. Other substances stay longer and that is why the testing can pick it…

“I think propaganda needs to return to common parlance,” says Michael J. Socolow, a professor of journalism and communications at the University of Maine. “We have so many euphemisms today for propaganda. We have ‘native advertising,’ ‘sponsored content,’ ‘public diplomacy,’ ‘fake news,’ and ‘post-truth’ content: They’re all variations…

I also think The Go-Betweens were a…

Short of doing…

All the late Mrs Marsh did was spruik Colgate Fluorigard by dipping a stick of chalk in ink before snapping it in half and displaying the results to a bunch of dutifully credulous Australian GenXers.

Within a week or so of that was a speech (I caught the excerpts on Full Frontal -…

That's business and the MSM is business so we can hardly criticise them.

But that has meant that…

I have a blog post for you:

https://publicaddress.net/hardnews/drugs-testing-and-workplaces/

Not remotely.

Through her grief, Dunham talks about being in a better position than most Americans. “It’s a privilege to be heartbroken by the system for the first time at age 30,” she said, adding, “So many people — those in the prison system, those with undocumented…

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/02/24/press-gaggle-press-secretary-sean-spicer-2242017

The same way "dirty politics" did in NZ – organised repetition, message discipline, weakened media, and some useful idiots. Just with better push tools in the US case because they can afford them.

It's interesting that Key offered the same bullshit anecdata last year, but I doubt it'll work for English.

...and then Labour and the Greens (who really should know better) supporting repealing our health and safety laws (specifically brought in to protect people from their own and others stupid) to allow workers to go down Pike River…

...und ewige Schlangenkraft.

And as part of my research into "nudge", I became very conscious of how easy it was to make my brain misfire. I took the TV aerial off…

I still can't tell how much of all this is going ATP from their point of view, or whether it's just a bunch of dicks making the same kind of luck for themselves as a gang member in a sandpit.

Meanwhile, Jacinda. Yay!

If we want to protect our democracy, we need to get our heads…

I'd love someone…

Its just weird how some USians look back with fondness at that time. I guess they all started building their echochambers about…

And now Trump's…