Well, I've had a few interesting discussions there. It's good to occasionally engage with people who utterly disagree with you on almost everything.

Yup, although I draw the line on them disagreeing about the value of using rationality and courtesy.

Thanks for the link, Deborah.

Its from Butterflies and Wheels, my favourite aggregator site. I recommend it.

What if I'm both bored and masochistic?

Ever seen Belle de Jour, Ryan? You're way hotter than Catherine Deneuve, though you're going to have to work on the whole Gallic ice queen/lesbian icon look. :)

What if I'm both bored and masochistic?

Ever seen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_de_jourl|__Belle de Jour]], Ryan? You're way hotter than Catherine Deneuve. :)

Unless you're just doing it because you're bored, he's not actually worth arguing with, because when confronted with his own fabrication or foolishness, he simply convinces himself of the next thing.

My experience was that he doesn't argue at all. He just makes personal attacks. That's in his works and…

Must not bitch

Wellington was hopelessly spoiled – they cancelled the non-Ian Seagull for and extra Ian Lear.

I keep thinking I should write them up even after all this time. Anyway, I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Yes – the academic and profile in courage for standing up to the bully-boy libel action of David Irving. My only excuse is that it's Friday afternoon, and my brain is already powering down until the RSC's Seagull on Sunday. Without Ian McKellen, but never mind: Chekhov, one of…

Gold.

Unless you're just doing it because you're bored

Or masochistic, don't forget that Russell. (Hope the foot's feeling a lot better, BTW.) Seriously, without triggering Godwin's Law myself, I revere Deborah Eisendtadt for spending her professional life trying to rationally deal with the fundamentally irrational (and pathological deceptive) world of…

Mayors don't have any real power unless affiliated with a group that has the majority of seats on council

Why is it that we have a separate vote for mayor? Why not just elect ourselves a council, and let them pick their own leader from amongst themselves.
It seems to…

Ian Wishart |is discussing the reviews over at his blog (which is unmissable, btw).

Ian's response to Ryan Sproull busting him on his patching together of three different quotes into something Marx never said is classic Wishart.

He just ignores the problem, sighs that people are such fools, and launches…

Science is the poetry of reality," it feels as if he wants not so much a world free of superstition as a world free of metaphor.

Seen Il Postinio?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Postino

Nona (to Priest): That poet, he is seducing my niece with metaphor!

Made my day.

Her quote defending her track record is rather amusing: "I have a 100 per cent success record with people at some level"

Doesn't that…

Hell, at least they would be somewhat more characterful choices than yucky old John Banks and boring old Dick Hubbard.

It could be worse: you could be in Wellington. Apart from the deeply divisive Kerry P, we've got a self-appointed "man about town" who'd probably make Kerry look like Sue…

Made my day.

Herald readers seem highly polarised on the issue, with Tamihere's support coming, as you might expect, from angry conservatives.

Has John changed sides or have I missed something? I know he is standing against Bob Harvey but does that make him a non person like John Key?

Hell, at least they would be somewhat more characterful choices than yucky old John Banks and boring old Dick Hubbard.

That seems to form the bulk of our thinking about Mayors. That's the only reason yucky old Banks got in I think, he's a character, even if that character is…

Do either of them really have the substance for the job?

More to the point, how the hell would you know if they did?

Do either of them really have the substance for the job?

Willy & John would make excellent mayors of Invercargill.