Posts by Chris Waugh
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Continuing the bizarre mundanity…
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Access: Respect, please, in reply to Angela Hart,
“Do as you would be done by”
A surprisingly common principle, in that it has been taught by philosophers, prophets, priests, and many others throughout the world since time immemorial. And yet.... as a species, we're astonishingly good at not learning basic lessons.
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Well, it's not often I'll open an article by John Roughan, but the headline on this one was just too intriguing. And it's a pity nobody's allowed the space to fully develop an argument any more, because this one has the beginnings of what could be quite an interesting, even fruitful, discussion:
One of them is our founding Treaty, which he thinks is just about property rights. The other is the national needs of indigenous minorities, which he ought to know about because the library at Cambridge contains some interesting work in political theory that attempts to build ethnic identity into principles of individual rights.
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Hang on a minute, there's something worrying about this:
Don Rood said that his head of news position had been disestablished.
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Staff approached by the Herald said they expected there would more significant changes when a new content boss was appointed.
My emphasis added, and there's plenty more in the elision to worry, I just cut it down to the two bits that most grabbed my attention - though the article is so short only a Newstalk ZB editor would think, "hmmm, that's a little wordy", so it wasn't easy to decide what to chop. But Radio NZ isn't doing news anymore? Only content, whatever the hell that means? And more significant changes on the way? Like what, swords dangling by threads over presenters to make sure they keep the punters tuning in? Isn't news a specific type of content of sufficient significance to society as a whole to warrant its own department with its own boss? Could I repeat that level of alliteration? Is there any reason to not worry?
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I've missed your updates, ChrisW.
Nature continues on up here, despite all the city hurls at it.
Though I'm not sure my father in law would approve of my neighbours' attempts at growing corn. I was only away for a week, and this is what happened... Still, I think I see why I see corn plants growing in seemingly really random places like median strips.
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I first saw this growing on the persimmons on a tree at my daughter's kindergarten this morning, and being rather preoccupied with playing with her, I just glanced at it and thought it was mould. Hardly surprising, considering Beijing has been it's usual muggy self this July. But I was talking to a neighbour and saw the same stuff growing on the persimmons downstairs, and he pointed out that no, it's actually a kind of insect.
And closer up.
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Wow, incredible.
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Um, so, Rodney Hide's latest column... this does seem to be quite an interesting evolution, at least in his public persona. And he starts with a combination of three words that is most rare in our political "leaders":
I was wrong
And he doesn't seem to be blaming Cunliffe for his ignorance, either.
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Scrapheap dogs.
