Six Bad Arthouse Plays: A review. Of sorts.
Before you read this review you should watch a minute or so of this video. It’s of a Wii game called Smooth Moves (skip to like 4:45).
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I’m a big defender of our media. I’ve copped some flak for it, but I think that on the whole our reporters do a reasonably good job
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John Key: I don’t even know what the GCSB is
By New New Zealand News correspondent Charles Harrison In a belligerent press conference, John Key has admitted he isn’t sure what the GCSB does.
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Rumiplaylist: the awfulness
So in a fit of collaboration, I thought I’d ask my friends, family, Twitter followers and Facebook pals to name me one song that I would add to a Spotify playlist.
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Opaque transparency
It takes a lot to make me write about current events. Usually because I’m not a creative thinker
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I racked my brains
I do not know if it is the right decision to send New Zealand troops to Iraq, but I thought I would offer my thoughts on the decision making process.
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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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American Political Batshit: Defense Spending
The first thing that you have to understand about military spending in America is that we have to spend that money.
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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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American Political Batshit: Climate Change
For the sake of argument, let’s say that you are a 56-year-old lobbyist for the Chamber of Commerce, which is a DC-based trade association that influences lawmakers on behalf of enormous corporations.
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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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