Posts by James Butler
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Hard News: Switched on Gardener: to what…, in reply to BenWilson,
Yup, targeting meth production would make more sense, for starters, something that actually is run by gangs.
Genuine Q: Isn't most marijuana production run by gangs too? Of course that's not really the market SOG supplies to, so it doesn't really have much to do with this.
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“War on ” + noun
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I know this is a bit boring and serious, but is there any phrase that has acquired more meaning in the last 10 years than "social media"?
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It’s Neil Young and Crazy Horse – how do you think it sounds?
They've been playing that song for 35 years and it still sounds, once or twice, like it could all fall to pieces. Beautiful.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Warren Clark,
there are some things that are more important then money
Sweet, where can I buy them?
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Danielle,
That post made me start mentally singing a Tori Amos song.
You think that's bad? Russell's reply gave me a Greg Johnson earworm.
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In a column in yesterday’s Dominion Post (which unfortunately doesn’t seem to be online)
Is it this one?
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Hard News: Party on, dudes, in reply to Hilary Stace,
PAS word-of-the-year time must be coming up soon.
I nominate "hacker"; if we allow phrases, then "malicious hacker" or "physical separation".
Also, congratulations Russel and co. on blogging for so much longer than blogs have existed. I seldom comment here now, but discussions I have been involved in , and people I have met both virtually and in person, have influenced my worldview no end. For the better I hope.
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Hard News: Special Sources, in reply to Hebe,
It is momentarily interesting offshore.
The one thing that's apparently not interesting offshore is Ira Bailey's past associations - in Charles Anderson's post on the New York Times blogs, he's just "an information technology administrator". If only some locals could just let him be what he is.
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the super-premium end of modern manhood
To me this reads as either "men with surgically-enhanced penises" or "expensive gigolos". Perhaps both.