Posts by Michael Stevens
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Great piece Emma
-
That was funny - thanks for helping me kick off the day with a grin.
-
That TV coverage was dreadful - I couldn't believe the utter insulting banality of Petrie et al on this.
I really feel for the cop who pulled the trigger here, but I don't know what else he or she could have done .
And meurant? Why does anyone listen to him?
-
I'm just so happy that there is an American President who can speak English beautifully, form correct sentences and convey complex and interesting ideas in his speech.
Maybe he could run workshops for our lot?
-
Emma, forgive me if I've misunderstood you, but in NZ heterosexual HIV infections are a tiny percentage of the whole - you seem to be implying there is some large hidden heterosexually transmitted epidmic - this is simply not the case.
In the developing world, yes it is, but not in most of the developed world, and certainly not in NZ.
The Otago AIDS Epidemiology Group puts ot authorative data on HIV in NZ and this clearly shows the prevalence sits in the gay male world, specifically in Auckland even.- Didn't meanto hijack the thread folks, just needed to clarify that.
-
Any form of domestic abuse is wrong, no matter what genders are involved. Although it's not my area of research I am pretty sure that male-on-female domestic violence is of higher prevalence, though I can't chapter and verse it all right now. Campaigns are typically targetted at the groupswhere most benefit will arise.That's why we don't see much in the way of , for example, HIV prevention campiagns targetted for straight men - they are such a low prevalence group in NZ that it is not a good use of resources. While women certainly are aggressors in domestic violence, it is nothing like the same extent as male on female violence.
Part of what pisses me off about ralston's HoS columns is that they seem so sloppy - as if he's written them in 5 minutes with no checking anything - brain farts really. He can (and has) written far better than that.And Mora's afternoon show is just so boring in every way I never listen to it.
-
This site is consistently the most interesting, provocative, funniest and informed take on local affairs. I don't always agree, but then, I don't expect nor need to. But it is essential daily reading.
Have a great summer and hope '09 is full of wonder for us all.
-
As someone pointed out in one of the news shows last night - the money for the conference is being reallocated - it's not being saved - so the whole thing is nothing more than a beat up by bennet et al.
Whetehr the conference would have done any good I couldn't judge, but the attitude here is nothing less than shallow "look at me" politics -
Judith is a very nice person Russell, I agree. Funny, smart, interesting, and genuinely interested in people.
But she wasn't doing well this last term as a local MP. Part of that comes from the bind of being in Government and therefore not being able to campaign the same way Kaye could - sitting Govt MPs are always at a disadvantage - they have a huge workload. And from what you say, part of it also comes I suppose from not being in the best of health.
But I have to say I haven't seen her around the electorate over the last 3 years except socially - and electorate MPs need to be visible. It's a shame the Party didn't think she deserved a higher list placing, as I suspect being a list MP at this stage in her life might have suited her better.
-
And according to DPF's figures, National now has more female MPs than Labour.
Re Akld Central - Judith just didn't seem to want it that much. I live work in the electorate, and the only time I saw her the whole campaign was the last Friday, driving up Queen St screaming through loudspeakers. I think she just assumed that she had it in the bag.
Roger Douglas - shudder - the Night of the Living Dead