Posts by Lucy Stewart
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In other words: she's got great networking skills! Nothing wrong with that, I presume it's how you win these things - it is, as the post points out, a popularity contest.
She's also done a *lot* to raise most of the rest of the money, got into an extremely prestigious university, won a Fulbright scholarship...I think that moves it a bit beyond great networking skills.
one of them, a Kiwi broadcast journalist whose accomplishments in political and public affairs reporting far eclipse Nicola’s own, will also be in the Columbia intake this year, without fanfare from the local blognoscenti)
Possibly because he's got all his funding sorted, and doesn't need the help? Making this fact sort of irrelevant in a post about someone else fundraising?
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And yet none have been hurt during raids on illegal alcohol breweries ...
(heavy irony)
Probably because this guy would have had a hard time presenting a threat.
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My mother (tipple of choice: Johnnie Walker Red) became put off Baptists for life when she worked in a restaurant in the USA and ran into some who ordered hard liquor and drank it out of teacups so no one would know.
Okay, them, I would *definitely* never vote for.
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Never got around to watching OF (one of a very long list of Things I Should Watch, Someday) but I *loved* Spin Doctors so very much. I wished it'd got a bit of a longer run, but writing it to match weekly events must have been a strain. Still, it was great while it lasted.
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And may I add: I had the privilege of getting to know Nicola a few weeks back, and she is a bright, kickass, and wonderful person. She really, really deserves this. Go vote.
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Apparently it didn't get back to pre-Prohibition levels until the 1970s.
I believe the big change was also that pre-Prohibition, Americans' drink of choice was spirits, whereas afterwards they started to move back towards less hard-hitting forms of alcohol. (Think of famous American forms of alcohol; bourbon, tequila, moonshine. Yes, I know they produce (some) decent beer and wine these days, but *historically* that was not the case at all.)
And I've seen statistics on how many Americans just don't drink at all - it's really surprisingly high in a NZ context, even assuming that some are fudging the truth a little. Thinking of adults I know, I could only name off-hand two non-drinkers; one is highly allergic to alcohol and one is from Saudi Arabia. We drink a *lot* here.
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I'm not defending P in any way shape or form, but given my own rather messy relationship with alcohol (and the long unpleasant history of piss-head politicians) I don't know if an admitted history of drug (ab)use is an automatic credibility killer.
Certainly it shouldn't be, and each person has to be judged on their own merits. But the question is whether, with the media environment around P, someone who admits to having had an "issue" with it can maintain credibility. It seems significantly less likely to me.
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Strangely apt though in terms of the original protagonists of this debacle....
Yeah, but....shouldn't we be demanding *more* of them? As, you know, human beings? (Except: oh, wait, that's a perspective that involves rapists as the problem, which is one the NZCon people are thoroughly unable to perceive.)
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In the past we might have had to wait for the 35mm movie film (narrated by Sean Connery) to see that much detail.
This has probably been mentioned somewhere on PA and I'm too lazy to look for it, but: last week Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent informed me that ESPN managed to get Martin Sheen in to narrate some game intros for the USA. A+++++++++++.
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some people still subscribe to a commodity model of sexuality, where a woman’s precious internal chastity orb is depleted every time she ‘gives it up’ to a new guy. Men, on the other hand, rack up points by claiming these chastity bits when we discard them.
I suppose the All Blacks have to score points at the World Cup *somehow*.
I thought part of all this fixation on women having sex was about __discouraging__us from having foreign bodies inside us?
Perhaps the worry is that they will dislodge the Chastity Orb?
(It also boggles the mind how someone can write a sentence involving the words "training [men] to be predators" and not notice how it reduces all men to the level of Dobermans. It's just such a thoroughly depressing view of humanity.)