Posts by Sacha
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If 300,0000 vote NO
150,000 vote YES
700,000 spoil papersI wish I shared your optimism, Phil. Given the way our media are behaving lately, the headline would probably be "one million people do not vote yes".
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No no, parental correction. The correcting of parents.
Oh I understand now. I thought it was wingnuts wanting to beat their kids again.But actually it will mean if I see someone being a bad parent I can give them a good smack. Well that sounds fun.
Thanks, Emma and Bart. I'll feel a whole lot better thinking of it that way no matter what I eventually decide to do with the voting paper.
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Get the set designers for Outrageous Fortune to whip up something that showcases our quarter acre heritage for the world. And think of the jobs for all the lawnmower pushers and barbeque ranglers.
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Chris Trotter's Independent response to the Metro cheerleading story is relayed on the valuable IHI blog.
The article begins with the picture of a region suffering from “economic underperformance, blighted urban planning and social dysfunction” – all of it, Wilson implies, the dystopic residue of incompetent “local fiefdoms”. He has to do this, of course, because if it could be proved that Auckland’s multiple afflictions (if they exist at all) are in no way the fault of its local authorities, then the whole rationale for Hide’s “Super-City” disappears.
But, this is precisely what Auckland’s history does; it completely explodes both Hide’s and the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance’s arguments for collapsing local democracy into regional “governance”. The city’s woes, going back to, and beyond, 1865, have almost always arisen out of Auckland businessmen’s determination to turn politics into profit.
Whether it be Thomas Russell, fomenting war with the Maori king to expedite his company’s land-grabbing; or the powerful “development” business nexus, which spawned the sprawling, car-dependent culture of post-war Auckland; or the mirror-glass speculators, who tore down what remained of the city’s graceful Victorian architecture in the deregulated 80s; it has always been that fateful combination of greed and ambition (both local and national) which made Greater Auckland so much less than it could have – should have – been.
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Tim Watkins questions the wisdom of betting the house on the ailing cruise ship industry (with lush illustration from the Atlantic).
Can't we dream bigger than making room for another 30-odd cruise ships and welcoming another few thousand rich, elderly Americans?
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So, what word do we use for something that evokes both 'that is beautiful' and 'that is sexually arousing'?
I know there's no right answer, but how about lush, as in luscious? Topical example influenced by tonight's television viewing: "Dawn Porter is lush". Not to be confused with the usage "is a lush".
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seems it's inconsistent from what I can tell
Matt, probably best to ask Russell - we reported some of the behaviour a while ago and he can relay that.
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I think we're slipping, frankly
Not at all - Mr Judd only just explained paralipsis and now we have another example to consolidate the lesson.
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remember drunken teachers reeking of tobacco?
Private boys school then, Steve?
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And Russell Crowe. :)
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