Posts by James Littlewood*
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How does Team New Zealand in the mad world of yachting stack up in this analysis?
They've certainly made it through to more Americas Cup finals than any other team, and have won it more often than any other team, and - I think - have won more individual America's Cup races than any other team.
In the current season of the A.C. world series, they're top of table. With bugger all resources (relative) and a fraction of the development time of the other biggies.
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Thanks RB. As a non-rugger type, I find this kind of helpful in explaining certain aspects of the national obsession. Do I detect a hint of the apologist between these lines?
And yet, interesting contrast with Hayden Green's comment a couple of weeks ago that this would be the first All Blacks team ever about which he felt ambivalent as to whether they won the RWC or not.
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If I’m not feeling attentive, I’ll toodle along the footpath or the tramline.
Eventually, months after my crash, someone rang back from AT. Nice enough about it. But nothing's changed down there. I go extra distance to avoid the entire area.
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Quaxing? Oh, I see.
I'm proud of it. But should I be? Bertrand Russell extolled the bike's simplicity.
"I got on my bike and rode away. And with that, my first marriage came to an end."
Quaxing?
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Closer to 50, life's better than ever. No lame rationalisations, sour grapes or excuses.
OK. One quick peek under the hood. Because things are better than I've ever known, I suddenly find myself more frightened of dying than ever.
Or, I suppose it could just be a function of age. I like growing old because you become both less tolerant AND more sensitive. It's like the perfect storm of a belligerent old git! Bah!
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entactogenic
Had to look that one up.
The terms empathogen and entactogen are used to designate a class of psychoactive drugs that produce experiences of emotional communion, oneness, relatedness, emotional openness—that is, empathy or sympathy—as particularly observed and reported for experiences with MDMA (ecstasy).
Hug reform, nice.
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Exactly. It was in these pages a couple of years back that Emma Hart urged the Labour Party to get this right:
I would love it if at least one of the candidates you chose, for Central or East, actually was one of us: the exhausted scary fucked-off mothers of Christchurch.
I don't know if it's because the detail's
too boring
or whether it's because the National Government has such a voracious appetite for screwing things up, that the opposition can't keep up.
Elsewhere, the only articulate response to the TPPA is coming from outside Parliament.
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Thank God. I wondered if it was something like that. Thanks tons Suzy for this thoroughly reasoned piece.
Maybe if the NZ Govt had been keeping up to date with its refugee obligations (or even - imagine - extending them), then Mr Teitiota might not have had the rising tide on which to float his campaign.
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I like Hemingway: There are only two sports worth talking about. Boxing and mountain climbing.
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Reading through this discourse puts me in mind of the public broadcasting license. I think Bolger put an end to it in 1999, in his last political act before electoral feat later the same year.
A license, for which a fee was collected by NZOA and then distributed around national broadcasters for targeted genres. Imagine that.
Funny thing was NZOA chose not to fund news or current affairs, precisely because those genres attracted sufficient ad revenue to pay their own way.
How long will that last? I guess we're now well on the way to filing news under "special interest."