Author: Lord Sutch
State of the Union
I haven’t really been blogging much lately. I haven’t really felt like there was something that I should talk about.
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3 tweets from ACT candidate for Northland, Robin Grieve, that tell you everything
Scientists trapped in record Antarctic sea ice retracing voyage of 100 years ago. What has happened to global warming? — Robin Grieve (@RobinBGrieve) December 25, 2013
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How Presidents & Assholes is really an allegory for the left wing view of life
Over the weekend just gone, I was at a social gathering where someone suggested we play Presidents and Assholes (or just “Presidents” as some may know it).
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Fisking Eleanor
So, hasn’t Eleanor Catton made a bit of a splash. In 18 months she’s gone from Cultural Golden Girl, praised by the Prime Minister as being super intelligent, to political pariah and one of those disgusting Green voters.
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And Islamophobia was never a problem ever again
The Sykes-Picot agreement is a thing. And it’s a thing that may be more responsible for current global issues than we realise.
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If you do not read this post then the terrorists will win
If we don’t continue to publish cartoons of Mohammad then the terrorists will have won!
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All sorted for Es and Whizz
So people are up in arms, in ARMS about the Police’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy towards speeding over the Christmas period. And by zero tolerance I mean that if you went over 100/kmh by even 2km you got a ticket.
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The great Ruminator satire robbery
Over the last few years New Zealand has had some wonderful satirists.
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The time John Key invited me over for Christmas lunch with his family
John and I had been hanging out a lot. In fact he’d been coming over to our house pretty regularly since he discovered I had an original Optimus Prime transformer.
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Have modern kids got game? My parents decide
I’m going to start an infrequent series where my parents are going to assess the dating rituals of today’s youth. But for this to happen I need YOUR help.
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The case for stricter surveillance laws/the case for fewer surveillance laws
On the afternoon the Martin Place Siege was happening, I tweeted the following (and no, don’t worry, it’s not flippant):
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Ruminator’s 2014 Person of the Year
Following on from last year’s controversial decision to award Ruminator’s Person of the Year to Miley Cyrus, I took some suggestions from the Twitterazis as to who it should be this year.
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I was a Mormon, then I wasn’t: Jacinda Ardern
She’s pretty much everyone’s favourite Labour MP. Despite all the in-fighting and muck-raking and general ickiness that has beset the Labour party
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No bullshit: Andrew Little
Andrew Little is straight up and down. He’s a man of no bullshit. What you see is what you get. He’ll give you answers that are honest and thoughtful. That’s the narrative that he wants to build.
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Chin up kids, it’ll be ok
So the election of Andrew Little was met with a wailing of teeth from my Twitter feed.
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A tale of two sinners
Recently in the news we’ve had a couple of examples of inappropriate behaviours from white men in positions of power.
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