Posts by Stephen Judd
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Apropos the Greens: they're a coalition of disparate interests just like the other parties. Unfortunately, the romantic and irrational anti-science constituency is one of the more powerful interests in that coalition.
I'm afraid the Green's commitment to science and technology is only utilitarian when it comes to argument -- they claim its authority if it suits them. That's all.
My Dad contemplated the Greens at one point when Labour had really ticked him off, but as a chemistry PhD he just couldn't make himself do it.
In other words: what Tom Beard and Sarah Flynn said. I feel the same way. It is this kind of thing that makes me despair of party politics, when what I really want to vote for is a little of this and a smidgen of that and a mixed assortment of those things.
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I can't decide whether I'm too old school or new school but either way, I don't have the time or the energy. I am deeply suspicious of things that nag me, allegedly on behalf of people I don't know that well, and may spam me later.
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"the head of factual entertainment"
Tells you everything, really.
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From the CoffeeGeek post: In fact, it is my observation that the New Zealand market is the more competitive of the two, due to fewer large cities without the tyranny of distance - which usually serves to slow down transfer of information.
How weird to read "tyranny of distance" used in this way, and in connection with New Zealand as well.
But it's true. News travels fast. Less than 15 years ago I was in Gisborne and asked for espresso. "We've got ... Nescafe?" was the doubtful reply. I don't think you could find a cafe or coffee shop without a machine anywhere now.
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I'm more concerned that we should be talking out our own trash - and our very own racist bastards - before affecting any degree of moral or political superiority over anyone else.
Oh Craig, that's bullshit. I don't need standing to deliver criticism. I don't need approval, and I don't need credentials. The only qualification I need is to be right.
I don't believe in any case that Harawira DID assert moral or political superiority. He just said, correctly, that Howard is a racist bastard.
Harawira is not a lovely specimen, but he's right. Perhaps hypocritical, but still right. Being without sin before you cast stones is a fine doctrine for Christianity but a lousy one for politics.
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<i>Hone Harawira has really gone beyond the accepted boundaries of acceptable political discourse: i.e., he spoke the truth.</i>
There is an old Yiddish saying, that even a blind chicken can peck some corn now and then.
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(By comparison, in 1999 at the height of impeachment proceedings, only 32% wanted Clinton impeached).
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My girlfriend and I were walking down Queen st. shortly afterwards. We put on German accents and talked loudly about how filthy the street was and that we'd been led to believe that New Zealand was a clean country, much to apparent horror of many bystanders.
I love you and your girlfriend.
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Harry Hutton has something to say about that.