This is ground control to Dave Shearer, you’ve really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it’s time to leave the caucus room if you dare
This is Dave Shearer to ground control, I’m stepping through the door
And I’m floating in a most peculiar way
And caucus looks very different today
Here am I sitting on the front bench far above the world
Parliament is blue and there’s nothing I can do…
David Bowie was of course a frontrunner to take the Labour leadership before he had to withdraw due to strained vocal chords.
This letter was written in response to this letter urging overseas holders of student loans to pay back more in the wake of the Christchurch earthquake. Read the rest of this entry »
In the course of my work a whole lot of research and interesting information never sees the light of day. I think this is one of those times where the information is worth sharing. Read the rest of this entry »
I was disgusted to see that the New Zealand Homeopathic Council has used the Christchurch Earthquake as a clever opportunity to spread misinformation about homeopathy and play on peoples’ fears and anguish for personal gain. Read the rest of this entry »
Tis a glorious day in the Peoples’ Republic of New Zealand when our most trustworthy and benevolent National Government nationalise—by semi-violent means—and return to the workers of Aotearoa vast tracts of arable land, productive dairy cows from which a new generation of proletarian babies will suckle and grow strong and massive piles of toxic debt are wiped from the ledger books of running-dog capitalist pigs and tools of the military industrial complex thus freeing the worker from the chains of economic serfdom.
This week’s Sunday Star Times posed 50 questions to Prime Minister Key from famous New Zealanders.
Unfortunately, his entire press team were away when he first got the request from the SST. AbsoulteGenius was lucky enough to have been leaked his original answers.
Spock: The Kobayashi Maru scenario frequently wreaks havoc on students and equipment. As I recall you took the test three times yourself. Your final solution was, shall we say, unique? Kirk: It had the virtue of never having been tried.
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