Posts by Carol Stewart
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Huge fan of Alan Bennett, who (IMNSHO) is painfully funny but not one of life's little joy germs.
I'm totally with you on this Craig, I adore Alan Bennett. I loved the way he turned down an honorary degree from Oxford when they established the Rupert Murdoch Chair in Language and Communication.
You probably saw this already:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/may/07/alan-bennett-birthday-writing -
(I meant because of her tireless campaigning against Section 59 repeal rather than her action-packed private life)
-
Christine Rankin as the head of the Families Commission
.. makes satire redundant.
-
Bruce, the comment about shooting possums was made, way back on about page 1, in response to someone who asserted that all killing was equally and indistinguishably bad regardless of whether it referred to homicidal maniacs or recreational hunters killing a few rabbits or deer, or possums. It wasn't intended as a pest control strategy.
-
Well, that's a fair question Carol but I'd make these points
I did wonder if this was a case of shooting the messenger (unfortunate figure of speech, sorry) but I think the points you make are fair enough.
-
Oh, and extra shit points for using Smee's open grave as a bully pulpit to say its time for everyone to have tasers and those who argued differently are stupid cop haters.
Craig, I didn't hear Greg O'Connor on the radio this morning, but I do take the point everyone is making about the opportunism involved on his part. Not to mention the bad timing.
But .. what is fundamentally unreasonable about reviewing the event and determining whether the use of tasers could have helped resolve this situation better? -
Sofie, there is a haiku hiding in there :-)
Tom Beard, you're right. We need to deal to these introduced pests unless we want to end up sharing these islands with 500 million possums and not a lot else, but it is scary to take pleasure in the whole deal.
But I would like to hear what Conor has to say on the subject too, so I hope he/she is still there.
-
Further: we section parts of unfarmed land off, call it reserves and forests and then good keen men and their sons go in their with personal arsenals and dogs and keep up the killing.
Where do you stand on killing possums, goats, deer, rabbits, stoats and feral cats, ConorJoe?
-
A very fine piece, Russell. Thank you.
-
Here's a curiosity: iron age gems.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/popular/recipes/saturday/iron-age_gems