Friday, March 26, 2010

Old Crow bring out the country aficionados

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On Wednesday night my wife and I, with our daughter and her boyfriend, went to a concert by the Old Crow Medicine Show at the State Opera Ho...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Tramping without the scroggin and singalongs

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(First published in the Nelson Mail and Manawatu Standard , March 17.) Serious tramping has never appealed to me. The thought of having to e...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Tuku and the gravy train

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We are indebted to ACT MP David Garrett for providing us with a rare insight into the real nature of the Treaty gravy train. A question put ...
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Going where no country has gone before

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(First published in the Curmudgeon column, The Dominion Post , March 16.) NOW that the heat has gone out of the global warming scare, if you...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

A few thoughts on victim impact statements

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Yesterday’s Dominion Post carried a story about a 23-year-old man who prowled the Internet looking for young girls. Douglas Charles Segetin ...
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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Could the crowd (or the lack thereof) be the deciding factor?

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It can hardly have escaped anyone’s attention that the Wellington Phoenix play Sydney FC tonight for a place in the final of the A-League fo...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

So much for freedom of speech

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Information and ideas are the oxygen and food of democracy. We need information on which to make judgments about who we want to govern us an...
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