The percentages seem a little misleading to me: 41% on is $14,800 (Maori) is about $6,100, while 31% on $18,600 (Pakeha) is about $5,800. So, the gap has closed $300 rather than 10%. Not to be sniffed at but but also hardly overwhelming.

Fair point. But the relative rate of?

Meanwhile, you may find his list of gay bands to steer clear of useful

Frankie Goes to Hollywood? Elton John? Melissa Etheridge? Village People?

Who'd've thunk it?

But they missed some obvious ones: Bronski Beat, Cliff Richard...

Actually I would like to withdraw the ! and replace it with (shrug)

And Le Tigre aren't gay they've got that manly keyboardist. And the Eagles of Death Metal wear leather and have thick manly moustaches – SO not gay.

Morrissey (? questionable?)

ROFL! [wipes tears from eyes]

what about Prince.... awfully tight pants going on there.

and the Beatles. you can't convince me lennon and mccartney didn't have a drug-addled fling, "i'd love to turn you on" indeed...

BTW, I'd love to comment on the serious stuff, but PS Code of Conduct and all that...

The percentages seem a little misleading to me: 41% on is $14,800 (Maori) is about $6,100, while 31% on $18,600 (Pakeha) is about $5,800. So, the gap has closed $300 rather than 10%. Not to be sniffed at but but also hardly overwhelming.

I found this one:

Maori incomes have?

-- Oscar Wilde (reformed homosexual)

Shenanigans, dammit! I call shenanigans!

what about Prince.... awfully tight pants going on there.

If we're going to talk about tight pants, don't forget David Bowie in Labyrinth.

And what's with?

So Russell are you saying that the Government is succeeding in closing the gaps even after ditching Closing the Gaps?

I always wonder why so many homophobes are Queen fans. That most enlightened of radio stations, Howracki, certainly thrash them extensively.

Don't forget there's a "Safe Bands" link there too.

"Entertainment that is safe for your children"! Cyndi Lauper?! She Bop, anyone?!?! Filth, it's all filth!

even less overwhelming. Russell you've put it as doubling, when the total population percentage didn't double.

Not my wording – it was a quote from the Herald story.

Seems to be a negative to me – Maori are increasingly unlikely, relative to the general population, to earn at least that?

It's possible for someone catching up to to see a gap grow in actual terms (i.e. income for one group could be rising faster – a higher %age increase, but be $300 further away).

However, contrasting?

How anyone could even vaguely NOT instantly see that gay-basher "Danny Davies" is pulling the piss utterly confounds me.

If you're that dumb you'd probably go to war on the say-so of any moron just cause you like his hat or his dog or something... oh, never mind.?

Firstly, she talks of a growing Maori middle class. The graphs here speak to that.
The NZ middle class if the obvious bump in earnings between 40 and 70k in the top graph. The same bump is not really?

How could she be safe?

i remember one being, "going down on my knees for jesus", or summin.

not to mention the obvious worship of S&M. someone mentioned john safran in another chain, did?

How could anyone see Davies' clips and not think they were satire.
I do realise that it can be hard to tell with the fundy crowd sometimes.

And how. When Ted Haggard was outed, people posted pictures of his New Life Church management team. You could hardly hear yourself think?

Whether unions, feminism or ethnicity, improvement spells the end of the significance of the leader. Where would the Destiny church be if "morality" improved, out of?

I wanna get down on my knees and start pleasing Jesus! I wanna feel his salvation all over my face!

This transcript has the songs helpfully bolded. But you might miss the conversation with the record exec:

We just have one question, though.?

and, lol.

you really love Christ

[sighs, utters slight chuckle]