Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to Steve Withers,
I think the core of the problem lies right there: a huge number of voters can no longer coherently articulate their own values
You seem to be implying that there was a time when they could. How did that make things better?
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Access: I'm not laughing, in reply to Steve Curtis,
And No. 17 - "My Catholic uncle went to Lourdes and came back with two new tyres on his wheelchair"?
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
When will we get to see the phrase “dead beat Dad state” make an appearance in our media?
I think it was Russell Brown who came up with the "wait till your father gets home" state as the possible successor to the nanny state a few years back.
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
The last major reform of Labour happened in the 1970s, carried out by Anderton and Clark.
Eh? While Clark was sufficiently prodigious to have become a junior lecturer at the relatively tender age of 22, she was 29 with no parliamentary experience when the 70s ended, and had been a member of the Party's executive for barely 18 months.
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to st ephen,
surely everyone can see that Italy's flag is completely lacking an eagle attacking a snake above a cactus?
They Twinked® it out after Garbaldi beat the Mexicans?
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to Bart Janssen,
… it’s red white and blue “The USA” … no red white and blue stripes … “France” … no the other way up … “er I don’t know*”...
*The NetherlandsThen there's the minimalist Indonesian flag. Easily improvised back in the independence struggle by ripping the nether blue stripe from the Netherlands flag.
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Envirologue: Fool me Once: Lessons on…, in reply to Rob Stowell,
where’s Labour gone?
Bloody quiet :(
Labour’s Te Tai Tokerau victory has effectively meant one less voice opposing the TPPA.
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Access: It’s just a bout of Chronic Sorrow, in reply to Hilary Stace,
So why is the government destroying this organisation and leaving vulnerable people stranded?
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Hard News: 2015: The Budget of what?, in reply to Andre,
the inter-generational theft that governments over the past 30 years have engineered – wittingly or not, the jury is still out. Inter-generational theft. I’ve been attacked by a few tories and elderly PAers over the years for mentioning the term.
Well good for you. Your activist record might turn out to be a handy get-out-of-jail card when the kids eventually get around to carrying out the long-overdue pogrom against intergenerational thieves.
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Hard News: Mediaworks: The only horizon…, in reply to Mike O'Connell,
Martin van Beynen in the Press chimes in with this: John Campbell TV3 departure: He’s no different to a can of soup. Van Beynen admires the man Campbell but is no great fan of Campbell Live. The article headline is made without any sense of irony – at least in terms of a nod to history.
Van Beynen's also taken to referring to himself as a public intellectual, again without a hint of irony.