Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Summer Snow, Logan Park, next to the Dunedin Stadium, last Friday. Think they are seeds, but they didn't come from the trees overhead, so must have blown from over the road.
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Completely off topic, but this might interest some:
David Lange's last public lecture, inaugural Otago Chaplaincy and Interfaith Group Peace Lecture on the topic of “Old Faiths, New World”. 5 August 2004. Video and audio versions available here: http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/itunesu/podcasts/humanitieslectures.html
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Woe betide those who question our water quality. Rachel Stewart, Taranaki Daily News.
Claire Browning from Pundit says it earned her two death threats and a dead possum in her letterbox.
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Not only is fuckeulogy not in common use, but most of the results pages were user names or online slang dictionaries. If it's used in a sentence, its meaning is usually glossed first.
It was coined by John Oliver in the online podcast The Bugle after the death of Bin Laden. It's also been applied to some other people who aren't generally liked who have been killed around the region in the same podcast. I'm not aware of it being used anywhere else, amongst the followers of that podcast it has a somewhat legendary status - it's a fantastic analysis of what was going on around the media when he died - the eulogy for someone that you're really quite happy is dead.
Mainstream influence virtually none however :)
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Who cares about albums, seriously?
I do my music exploration online, but once I've found something that I like, I buy the album, and I almost always buy the hard copy rather than digital.
The new version of itunes that seems to play stuff in a random order, or sometimes only play one song, or only a few from an album, is pissing me the hell off.
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Binnie sure is sharp though, and not reticent about speaking his mind. I don't know about Fischer, but I doubt Collins is up to debating him in any medium.
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Is it that bad? She’ll spin it that she had an opinion, a legal one, which, according to her boss, is something you can just make up.
We'll never know now. It's looking like ending up somewhere between the two reports, which means that it's enough of a stalemate for her to get away with going for a redo, rightly or wrongly. The key point seems to be the approach that Binnie took, rather than any massive factual error, and I suspect most people could come down on either side of it.
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So you believe Collins when she says
Oh no. We don't like her at all, bad family history.
However if Binnie has gotten his report right, then she's just made an astonishing legal and political error, and probably killed her political career. It'll be backed up from comments from the solicitor general and others, so she must be fairly confident.
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Justice Binnie's response - mostly about process.
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Now Collins has to go get a QC to give her what she wants and she wanted it before Xmas too – she should just write out what she wants and get the QC to pad it out a bit.
Andrew Geddis wrote a fair post on pundit.
Given that the report is likely to be made public after cabinet makes its decision, it's unlikely that he's done a good job and she just doesn't like the outcome. There probably is something wrong with his report beyond giving money away that she doesn't want to give. She basically slammed the minister who sat in her chair before her, quite extraordinary.
