The Victoria University of Wellington Student Association said no to the opportunity to lay a wreath at Anzac Day commemorations. The reason? Apparently, they reckoned taking part would mean they were condoning war. Have any of these idiots ever even…
Category: My latest rant
Sometimes I just need to rant. Be afraid, you are my captive audience.
Gothic kitten seller to go to court
The nasty, kitten-mangling biarch who was selling “gothic kittens” with piercings has been ordered to stand trial. Her lawyer reckons state law says nothing about piercing cats or docking their tails. It probably doesn’t explicitly prohibit poking red-hot poker up the…
Our ridiculous new law
The protest are mounting against the new law that will be inflicted upon us from next week but are the politicians listening? And more to the point, do they care? The drama is all over “Section 92a”, a proposed amendment…
Veging out
Sydney Morning Herald foodie columnist Simon Thomsen has written an interesting piece on all flavours of vegetarians. He says he’s not sure why they are so indignant and aggressive but suspects it could be diet-related. I find it hard to…
Party-poopers punish Phelps
The proverbial brown stuff has started to hit the fan for America’s Olympics golden boy, Michael Phelps. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll probably be aware of the photos that popped up in Brit tabloid News of the…
More bad press for Facebook
This time the headline screams: Teen accused of sex assaults in Facebook scam. Ooooh, very exciting and dramatic. Turns out some 18-year-old conned classmates into doing dodgy stuff. An 18-year-old US student is accused of posing as a girl on…
Building a business
As more information comes to light about Nadya Suleman, the mother of the octuplets born in Los Angeles, the more I think the woman is an A-grade idiot. And a selfish one at that. So now we know she already…
Playing the blame game
It’s an absolute tragedy for the family of Aussie girl Gemma Thoms that she died from a drug overdose at the Big Day Out in Perth. But how the hell can supposedly intelligent people blame the cops for this? According…
Suicide and apathy on the internet
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Suicide isn’t a topic many of us want to discuss but the death of a United States teen last week has made it a hotly debated topic online and there…
Tax cuts: Oooh, let’s go crazy!
So, what will you be doing with all that cash you’ll have burning a hole in your pocket with our exciting tax cuts that come into being tomorrow? The lovely people at Infometrics have a calculator on their site if…