Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to Sacha,
And Mary Wilson is demanding Kate Wilkinson basically pre-empt the inevitable inquiry and accuse the company of lax safety standard. FFS, I know plenty of PASers like her "rottie on P" manner a lot more than I do, but this wasn't the time or the place. Think I'm going to turn the radio off, and stay away from the TV for a while.
ETA: Anyway, I've got a radio piece to write from scratch for tomorrow morning. The planned serve to the media's disaster pornographers is still pertinent but, all things considered, in poor taste. Place and time - and this week's PAR is neither.
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to James Francis,
Thank Mr. Larkin -- if there's a heaven for poets, I'm sure he's grumbling about the neighbours and the awful cost of gin.
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On the day of the explosion
Shadows pointed towards the pithead:
In the sun the slagheap slept.Down the lane came men in pitboots
Coughing oath-edged talk and pipe-smoke,
Shouldering off the freshened silence.One chased after rabbits; lost them;
Came back with a nest of lark’s eggs;
Showed them; lodged them in the grasses.So they passed in beards and moleskins,
Fathers, brothers, nicknames, laughter,
Through the tall gates standing open.At noon, there came a tremor; cows
Stopped chewing for a second; sun,
Scarfed as in a heat-haze, dimmed.The dead go on before us, they
Are sitting in God’s house in comfort,
We shall see them face to face —Plain as lettering in the chapels
It was said, and for a second
Wives saw men of the explosionlarger than in life they managed —
Gold as on a coin, or walking
Somehow from the sun towards them,One showing the eggs unbroken.
The Explosion, Philip Larkin
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Yeah, I feel exactly the same way. There's a certain class of person who complains about the media irrespective of the actual quality of the reporting because they have nothing else to say.
Second explosion confirmed. Let's see who holds their shit now. And could the media (yes, I'm using the collective noun) please show they've got some human DNA and back the fuck off the families? All the way, people -- show your class not your arse.
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
ood to see them doing the job that they were set up to do, hope the media pick up on them and their experts.
I'd prefer the media to hire reporters, editors and subs who are scientifically literate and numerate. Guess that's going to have to go on my "not in this lifetime" wish list right behind special adult cuddle time with Russell Tovey.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides: How to Be…, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
That's great stuff. An argument against gay marriage on the premise that if we continue to stop gays marrying, they're more likely to marry women and produce children.
Depressingly, it's a fairly standard do down the fags line of argument. I don't know what's worse about that line: the middle finger extended towards reality, or the intellectual dishonesty of this:
1) 'Normal' marriage is great because it is sooths the savage animal penis brains -- which is a state of being that is good for individuals and families and society at large.
2) Homos are degenerate animal penis brains who'd shag anything, anywhere any time.
3) Which is precisely why homos shouldn't be allowed to marry. (So much for the social utility defence of marriage. Wouldn't you be encouraging cock-loving sex maniacs to enter into formal, socially-sanctioned pair bonds if you really believed 1)?)
If you can make sense of that, I'd like you to take a look at my student loan statement. IN the meantime, if Christopher Pearson doesn't take his own argument seriously I don't see why I should bother.
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to Russell Brown,
Hopefully that won’t be too jarring.
Nah -- have a funny feeling any light-ish relief will be pounced on with relief. :)
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And one for the 'FFS, people, grow a spine' file this notorious pack of wet urban liberal shirt-lifters coming screaming out of the gay marriage closet.
At the weekend the Territory's ALP conference passed a motion supporting changes to the Commonwealth Marriage Act.
While the vote is not binding it adds to the pressure on Prime Minister Julia Gillard to settle the debate before it is raised at Labor's federal conference late next year.
But that has not stopped Labor members in the Territory putting forward a motion urging their federal representatives to urge the Gillard Government to go one step further than backing gay civil unions.
Labor's NT branch president Senator Trish Crossin says it shows the majority of people at the conference support gay marriage.
"I think it sends a clear message to people in the community who are lobbying for this that we are a progressive party and we are prepared to debate these sort of issues and resolve these issues," she said.
IIRC, Senator Crossin is generally placed on the "right" of the ALP but I'm happy to stand corrected.
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Up Front: The Up Front Guides: How to Be…, in reply to Ian MacKay,
Not quite, Ian. I agree with John Roughan a lot more often than not, but it's always a coin toss whether he's going to be 'Good John' (rational and tightly argued) or 'Bad John' (mad as a sack of kittens rolled in crystal meth) from paragraph to paragraph.
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But Brownlee's right; Australians care deeply about what's happening in NZ and not just because they have their citizens down the mine.
Well, indeed -- as I've said elsewhere on PAS, more of my whanau are Ngati Bondi nowadays. Ditto for my partner -- two of his three living siblings are in Australia, and have been long enough to be on the verge of great-grandparenthood. :)
But I sure hope if the position were reversed, this kind of nonsense from a Kiwi hack would be greeted with a stern injunction for said hack to get his hand off it.
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