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Sometimes it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.

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Well they’re out. The final four design have been reached and they’re all a bit terrible.

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I hope the Young Nats paid for their license

So the John Key + All Blacks love affair has been going on a while. This isn’t news.

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Farrar vs polls vs spin

In a Kiwiblog post that seems to have been written by David mashing his fists against the keyboard, Farrar argues that Labour’s “week of headlines on blaming the Chinese for Auckland house prices has come to nought” (source).

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When are numbers racist?

By Morgan Godfery Some politicians seem to think that “data” exists in a privileged realm somewhere above politics and power relations. Data, according to Phil Twyford and others, enjoys the authority of objectivity.

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Orewa 3: The Orewa-ing

On Saturday morning I was rung by a friend who is a huge political nerd. He is also right wing. He was excited.

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Meet the socialist running for US President

Bernie Sanders is, on first blush, a grumpy old man with crazy white hair who’s constantly yelling numbers into microphones about income inequality. He’s been doing it for decades.

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American Political Batshit: With malice towards none

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.”

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It’s all so obvious when you think about it

  There are a group of people, we are told, that focus groups suggest, will not vote National.

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It’s not easy being Green (while running for male co-leader)

A while back I asked the four Green Party co-leader aspirants what their favourite musical was.

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Speech by Minister for Women, Louise Upston at the 59th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

Ms Upston has, at the time of writing, been conspicuously silent on the issue of unwanted attention and harassment by the Prime Minister.

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Yup, it’s creepy

Ah, yes. It’s just a bit of fun. Mucking around. A friendly gesture. How many times have we heard these old chestnuts when some bloke has been somehow inappropriate?

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Politics makes me sick, again and again

We’re doomed. Doomed to repeat the same bullshit over and over again.

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How to mislead with numbers

I’ve always been a stickler for what I call the reverse-stat.

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Left is right

If you’re not a liberal when you’re 20 you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative when you’re 30 you have no brain.

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How the War in the North was won

So that settles it, Winston is awesome at campaigning. Better than Joyce. And Joyce is supposedly awesome. So awesome > supposedly awesome.

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“The term New Zealand comedian is an oxymoron”

So the title of this post is not my position, god no it isn’t. 

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A very short post that continues my rage about the Feed the Kids Bill

So like the huge political nerd I am, I did a bit of fishing.

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