Posts by Craig Ranapia
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More Trotter, if anyone's feeling masochistic enough...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/4286985/For-worst-supporting-role-I-nominate-Phil-Goff
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Makes more sense if you read Maia’s full piece which addresses power imbalance between industry and AE.
Nope, it's still loathsome and while I was far from convinced by Maia's argument -- some really dodgy assumptions and weak chains of reasoning didn't help -- at least there was one to engage with. "OMG - groping 16 year old girls on the casting couch!" wasn't illuminating.
I read No Right Turn because I/S usually leaves the tabloid shock and awful tosh to the usual suspects. Never mind - we all have off days and subjects we get irrationally cranky about.
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What he's described there is probably a general problem with contracting rather than employing, which this law does nothing to change.
It's a general problem where men (mostly) are wretched, abusive twatcocks -- whether you're a contractor, employee or none of the above.
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And I think this is where Idiot/Savant blew an otherwise gold medal winning shark jump by dismounting on his head.
I can't even begin to articulate the ugly dog being whistled for there -- you're not only an anti-union scab and tool of a foreign multi-national corporate you're enabling rape.
{Very very angry rant pre-redacted before it's even written}
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Miss a "no", Craig?
Not now. (God bless the edit button.)
Also, hopelessly off-topic, but does anyone know if Simon Grigg is ok? I know he's in Indonesia, and he hasn't posted anything to his blog since Tuesday (and I don't know whether that's a NZ time stamp or an Indonesian one).
I'm sure Simon is fine -- he's got a healthy dose of cockroach DNA, that boy. Probably busy working and/or being horribly dissolute. :)
True, but broken record now.
Nah... if they're going to be shameless hypocrites, it is on the rest of us to make sure the bullshit detector has both an attention span and a memory.
Personally, as I've said elsewhere, I find that Electoral Amendment (Harry Duynhoven Arse-Covering) Act more outrageous, but mileage obviously varies on that score.
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but it smells very bad that this is being done as a hastily-written, under-examined amendment to a very fundamental piece of employment legislation.
I've had the debate on in the background, and I've chortling at MP after MP standing up to denounce this brutal assault on Parliamentary democracy...
... but voted to ram through a retrospective amendment to the Electoral Act under extreme urgency -- no select committee scrutiny or public submissions, of course. And why? To avoid a by-election in New Plymouth neither Labour nor National had the will or the ready cash to fight.
I guess the legislation that controls who is qualified to be a legislator, and how we elect them, isn't that "fundamental" after all.
As Idiot/Savant might say: Fuck the hypocrites.
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This position for example, was rarely encountered.
Please... seems to me like we have a fairly standard Herald bingo card:
1) A badly written editorial completely innocent of anything resembling research, fact-checking or a coherent argument.
2) Brian Rudman engorged on his own condescending, irony-free bloviating. (BTW, darling, when you're denouncing imaginary sexism try not to pat the poor feeble lady-brains on the head while you're at it. It is 2010 not 1950.)
3) A gossip column masquerading as media analysis from John Drinnan. (Russell might have something to add on this score, as Drinnan seems to have a problem with Russell in general and Media7 in particular.)
It's a pretty serious market failure that The Herald is insulated from its own dizzying mediocrity, by the fact that (re-)establishing a competitor would require a proprietor with Tardis-like pockets and an addiction to red ink. Good luck finding a newspaper-loving sugar daddy nowadays...
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'twas all over Louise Nichols
*sigh* Yeah, that was an epic masterclass in media slut-shaming wasn't it? Welcome to the New Zealand Herald: Where they're going to party like its 1899!
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But the most delicious nugget of #Drinnanfail has to be:
As the media-induced hysteria over The Hobbit dies away...
I hope Toni Collette is available for the movie version, because the way the Herald acts as if it's above and beyond "the media" is sooo United States of Tara.
If Drinnan is Alice, the prissy 50's housewife alter, and Chris Trotter is Buck, the crass manly-man one would that make Rudman T. or Gimmie?
Jeebus - that was like going on a Sunday drive with George Michael and a trash bag of weed.
Correction: Reading Drinnan's column is always like going on a Sunday drive with George Michael and a trash bag of weed.
If you think that, Craig, then probably you should tell them. I think their books are wonderful.
Despite their connections with evil foreign multinationals and unpatriotic subject matter? Good on you.
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Woody Allen the same, he seems to survive by having generous funders.
For those convinced Warner Brothers is a pack of rapacious vulgarians, I have a two word response.
Stanley Kubrick.
Ho hum. Drinnan doesn't really seem to have grasped the key elements of the story very well either.
Jeebus - that was like going on a Sunday drive with George Michael and a trash bag of weed.
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