Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
As the song goes, we don't know how lucky we are in this country and one of the things we take for granted is our public health system. It may not be the most well-oiled machine, but if something needs doing then it gets done in a timely manner and ...
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
“Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?”
Almost everyone I talk to about the 2009 Citizens Initiated Referendum agrees that the question is completely stupid to the point of being dishonest. The main problem is with the word Good, by including a ...
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Today has thrown up some examples of what strange, dark times we live in.
Firstly the trailer for the live-action version of Where the Wild Things Are is released and turns out not to be a monumental travesty.
Then John Banks is quoted in the Herald saying something that I ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
It has irked me for a long time that although the President of the United States wields great power over the rest of the world, only US citizens get to vote. To be brutally honest it irked me a lot more when Bush II was in power, but I approve ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Finally the election is over for another 3 years – with the both the NZ and USA elections falling on the same week I was getting pretty sick of all the politics in our lives. It is unfortunate that the one election that will really affect our lives over the ...
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