Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Only the other day I came across the undeservedly-forgotton Bathroomgate, in which, six years ago, Michelle Bachmann ran screaming from a bathroom because two women tried to ask her a question. You really can't make any of this up
Ed Brayton's piece linked from that is gorgeous. Should Americans be asking for Bachmann's birth certificate?
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to James Butler,
Mmmm, autotools…
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
so there’s my great contribution to society right there.
Actually, that's only your contribution to their bottom line. Which, being financial companies, they will have structured to pay as little tax as possible, and then they went on to wreck the global economy through the simple process of making stuff up and selling it, and so were bailed out with tax dollars.
I'd go with the blog, if I were you. If you're thinking positive contribution...
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Hard News: Media7: Doing it for the Kids, in reply to 81stcolumn,
I await with interest her response to bullying – reports in school tables anyone
Probably bring back the strap
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Hard News: Time to get a grip, in reply to James W,
I own it. It’s chilling.
Yup. It sure is.
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Hard News: Time to get a grip, in reply to James W,
This is true. It ignores there are real live people in charge of those corporations that surely have morals, but I guess they ignore them in order to serve the corporation’s money-making function.
Time to plug The Corporation again.
The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary is critical of the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person….
The film is in vignettes examining and criticizing corporate business practices. It establishes parallels between the way corporations are systematically compelled to behave and the DSM-IV’s symptoms of psychopathy, i.e. callous disregard for the feelings of other people, the incapacity to maintain human relationships, reckless disregard for the safety of others, deceitfulness (continual lying to deceive for profit), the incapacity to experience guilt, and the failure to conform to social norms and respect for the law.”
You can watch it on YouTube via their website or you can buy a copy of the DVD, which I did after seeing it at a film festival. Superb documentary.
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Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Condoms?
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Hard News: Time to get a grip, in reply to nzlemming,
I’d also love for all these “saying what’s on people’s minds” euphemisms to stop and for people to call a spade a racist
I am proud to say that Paul Henry has never said anything that was on my mind before he said it.
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Hard News: Time to get a grip, in reply to Sacha,
What, you don’t think the BSA-regulated complaints process played any role in that?
Actually, I don't, except as part of a wave of criticism, especially from advertisers.
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Hard News: Media7: Doing it for the Kids, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And it’s a very standard distract troll to accuse your enemies of acting in bad faith. Don’t take notes, just kill it with fire.
I learned it all from you, dear heart ;-)
You really think the Minister’s letter (which I wasn’t overly impressed with BTW) was “bullying”?
Russell’s point was about the media reporting. You made it about the Minister. Distract troll, I think you said?
I’ve lived it, baby, and idiotic hyperbole like that NZEI PR adds nothing to real and meaningful culture change
I don’t doubt it (seriously) and, having lived it myself. I’m inclined to agree. But once again you try to sidetrack the discussion into places where it wasn’t going. That was the point of my post (in case you missed it)
Perhaps you can save me a lot of time, and post a list of subjects I can talk about without having to waste time playing Bad Faith Bullshit Bingo with you or Tom S. I’ll take “any criticism of teacher unions” as read
Uh huh. No. It's not about the games you choose to play but how you choose to play them.