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:
Last week Mr Miles posted about the upcoming referendum. We’ve had a while to think about the issue and get our heads straight. And you won’t hear this very often, but we think he was wrong. After careful consideration and three casks of wine, we think the only answer in this referendum is to spoil your ballot.
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News yesterday of a survey showing three out of four New Zealanders think the “anti-smacking” referendum is a waste of money is no surprise. New Zealanders are generally tinny and nine million dollars is a lot of money—a fact pointed out by many bloggers already. There is no point dwelling on it. The likelihood of Sheryl Savill pulling it is nil and implications dangerous.
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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…
Corrections Minister Judith Collins came clean about the true motives of her shipping container cell scheme this afternoon, admitting that it was phase one of a plan to turn the Auckland Islands into a penal colony. Read the rest of this entry »
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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Kia ora and welcome to AbsoluteGeni.us. As the tag line says this is a blog of politics, satire and absolute genius. We’re just two guys who think that people take a lot of things too seriously. Especially politicians, the media and especially especially bloggers.
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