Posts by Michael Stevens
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Well, Folsom Prison Blues I guess.
Off topic Russell, where have all the other writers gone?
I enjoy your columns, but the rest of the team seem to have scarpered. I know they've all got to earn a penny somewhere.
Can't you get some new writers on who will post regularly?
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He was, by all accounts, a brilliant and deeply concerned man. A shame the way the Lsitener has gone downhill so much in the last year or so.
I'm going to keep an eye out for that book though.
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Russell Brown wrote:
Lisa Lewis's vision of mass bikini-streaks just sounds idiotic and tedious.
I agree.
If only they'd make sure they were hot and hunky naked men charging across the field, i wouldn't mind so much ;-)
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Housing prices have dropped before, not just stalled. To assume they will always go up is naive.
What saddens me is when I look around Freemans BAy and see all that wonderful council housing and state housing that used to be here and is now in the hands of private owners. A better public housing programme could help adjust the market. But some sort of capital gains tax on housing sales is needed. But as already noted, our politicians don't have the guts.
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A little unfair to pick on Laws after his recent brain injury don't you think?
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So I hear the video has been pulled already from youtube?
And Craig is right - settling 'domestics' (hate that innocuous name) by fists is illegal. They should have convicted him.
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It just makes me wonder how many other kids are out there having to put up with this sort of violent abuse from parents who are supposed to be putting theirkids' best interests first. This is a trully appalling case.
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Wasn't it his step dad, who complained the boy didn't have enough respect, that he took to with the bat?
But these people strike me as being unfit parents. Very glad there was a witness this time, and I hope his biological dad is able to give him a safe home.
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I agree with Russel here - the situation for women and gays has become far worse since the invasion than it was before.
Saddam wasn't a champion of anyone's rights but his own. But the society he ran was a more open and tolerant one than that which has taken its place, even if the difference is one of small degrees.
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Following on from Joe Wylie, I don't think the accents were affected at that time at all.
People have always used a wide range of pronunciation. I don't see any great merit in the broad kiwi vernacular, or anything wron with it either. Trying to claim that those who speak 'differently' is an affectation is itself an affectation imho.