In case anyone’s following my beef with Radio New Zealand, which started in an angry post which rapidly transmogrified into a more rational post after Radio New Zealand rang me, I feel I should update now with what happened as a result.
Let me say up front, I’m a supporter of strike action. If you don’t think you’re being treated fairly by your employer, and discussing it with them isn’t fixing it, then what better way to get the message across that simply refusing to work on their terms. It’s an important part of a functional employment landscape.
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Some of our readers may remember recently, when Jackson spearheaded an earnest campaign to win the seat of Mount Albert from his stronghold in Wellington. Resoundingly ignored by the mainstream media, the campaign was still a great success, with almost tens of Mount Albert residents swinging in behind Wood.
On behalf both Jackson and myself, thanks to the more than ten thousand brave souls who truly and royally messed up their ballot in this retarded referendum. I thoroughly endorse the comments made by a close friend and far more intelligent man than myself, who, upon seeing the victory to the “no” vote, commented only:
I guess this means John Key has to remove the part of the crimes act which says “it is illegal to smack as part of good parental correction”
The ever-interesting Jake Quinn over at Life and Politics makes a very valid point on the nature of a political system that seems to encourage sheer bloody-mindedness over anything else:
Whoever thought up the idea of E-Prime seems like a genius. While it certainly does not appear suitable for use at all times, this does not eliminiate its usefulness in particular circumstances.
Simply put, E-Prime advocates the elimination of all forms of the verb ‘to be’ from language, forcing everything to be phrased in the subjective rather than the objective. Try it next time you are writing a political opinion. It forces you to behave quite differently, and all in all encourages a more reasonable approach to things. Fascinating – though I would note I find it reasonably difficult…
Eddie over at The Standard reiterates the claim that the Maori Party are sellouts for being in a Government with National. Now, that’s not, in and of itself, an unreasonable claim. But does it really hold up to serious scrutiny?
The first in an ongoing series: What we learned from the news.
When a tourist in another country, be very careful you understand when things are and are not literal before you react. Case in point – dueling banjos does not mean what you may think at first.
One can only be grateful he had apparently neither seen Deliverance nor heard of the band Modern English.
I’m fully aware that to publish my first post effectively in support of both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition goes against every promise I’ve made so far with regard to being angry. But unfortunately I don’t control the issues, and my first urge to post has come at a moment of comparative political sanity.
I’m talking of course of the referendum on smacking.
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