The simple truth is that most of our welfare agencies are now staffed by people without the necessary compassion skills to do anything useful in the lives of our most vulnerable. If beneficiaries really wanted to vent their fury at the manner in which WINZ staff treat them, then they could do that with a vandalisation campaign this year.
Markus Birdman is a fascinating comedian and proof that the snippets you see of an act in a big gala is not indicative of the comedians full body of work. In short bursts, Birdman is a cynical but well read 40s something solo father of a 12 year old but in a full show he is a philosopher who encapsulates the zeitgeist of the cultural death of Gen X.
We should all celebrate the Commerce Commissions surprise decision that the corporate media can’t do what they want and form a newspaper monopoly, the audacity is that Fairfax and NZME thought they could get away with it in the first place,
Following up on my 6 months out from the election analysis, here’s the run down 5 months out.
It was amazing watching so many supposedly ‘liberal’ twitter accounts gleefully attacking Willie Jackson last night based on a story from corporate media pundit Vernon Small that Willie Jackson had thrown a wobbly and flown to Wellington to get a higher place on the Party list.
The line that the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind seem to believe without ever even questioning it is that National are far better economic managers than Labour.
I think any incoming Government needs to urgently check the powers granted to Netsafe as a State sponsored censor and recalibrate those to where there are actual problems. Allowing a state backed censor to secretly attempt to censor legitimate political opinion online is a god damned outrage that no one in a free society should tolerate.
Solo Fatherhood is just like sole fatherhood but uses Han Solo more.
By splitting the Maori vote again and taking party vote support, the Greens just made it easier for the Maori/MANA alliance to beat Labour and in doing so provide an alternative path way to Parliament where the Greens have actual political power and not what Winston will allow them to have.
There were some sparkles this year, there was also a lot more misses than one would have expected. I won’t name and shame the misses, but the words ‘experimental’ were used about a few of the comedians in a way that isn’t positive.