Posts by Craig Ranapia
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I blame the ref myself. :)
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And just as a general issue, I'd rather not have refugee claims (or any other immigration decision, for that matter) hinge on the level of sympathetically pathetic media coverage you can hit the incumbent Minister over the head with.
That's not a policy, and it's certainly not a responsible use of ministerial discretion I'm not sure should exist in the first place. It's poll driven fruitcake.
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Not really, Sydney is a big place and only a small part is being sealed off. It would be the same as saying Auckland was in lockdown when in fact only the Viaduct area was closed. But yes, the media have latched on to this word Lockdown.
And who would blame them? It looks like the real story is that the media covering APEC are going out of the skulls with boredom, as they're pushed from carefully staged 'media event' to nicely framed photo op. Shit, they've got to file something to justify the expense claims. :)
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Robyn:
Ouch... Got to admit, not one of my most brilliant efforts but come on, I'm bleeding for you here. :) Seriously, I'm trying to imagine Lloyd Jones (no mean rugby fan himself) getting quite that over the top if he makes the Booker shortlist.
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It's not exactly a stirring resume, and I can't see how it all qualifies him to comment on a third term, first-elected female, prime minister who's recognised as an international leader of some stature.
Kyle, I think we're well aware - and have been for many years - that Helen Margaret Clark is a woman. How that "disqualifies" Moore - or anyone else who happens to have a penis rather than a vagina - from commenting on her performance as Prime Minister, the parliamentary leader of her party or even as an MP currently escapes me.
I know the US media can still furrow their brows over the psychosexual implications of Senator Clinton's choice in pantsuit, or the Secretary of State wearing kinky boots in Germany. But hasn't the novelty value of women in political leadership roles worn off a little down here?
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And isn't Anderton happy? No-one's paid him this much attention since early 2002.
Certainly -and it must be a wee ego boost when this must have him quietly spewing into his cornflakes. If that isn't an admission that Anderton's 'jobs machine' never worked, I don't know what is.
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This isn't a partisan point: were I a right-winger I would be just as frustrated. There are much better critiques of the government that could be being made.
Terence, didn't you get the memo: The media are all Key's tame bitches anyway or tools of the dykeocracy or something... so what do you expect? I'm being sarcastic, but I'm dismayed by how many people you'd really expect to know better wouldn't see the joke.
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Ah, that page! I forgot all about it. 'Levitate Me' in the style of the Beach Boys was my favourite, as I recall.
Ew that was horrible - but not quite as bad as 'Wave of Mutilation' getting the (sob) Bee Gees treatment. Don't know about anyone else, but half the fun of The Pixies for me was watching pretty pop getting bottled - smoothing out all the arfully-constructed sharp edges is just so far beside the point it's painful.
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Meh... The kindest thing you can say about the pissing match between Moore and the Anderton/Williams tag-team is that some kinks should be practised behind closed doors, and preferably in an uncarpeted room. Can't believe I'm saying this, from a partisan angle, but who would have guessed watching Labour make dicks of themselves in public could have gotten this tired, so quickly?
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Is that when the US bombs Iran? Is there another terrorist attack looming? Or is this just a random manifestation of market chaos?
Or it could be someone who actually had billions of dollars to gamble with - and probably spends a lot more time than any PA reader reading the entrails of the global economy - taking a punt on the notion that shit is like rain - it never rains, but it pours.
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