Sometimes I just need to rant. Be afraid, you are my captive audience.
(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 have been calls for censorship of the internet. However, short of putting in place the […]
Suicide and apathy on the internet Read Post »
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 you’re wanting to work out just how much you’ll have to treat yourself with now
Tax cuts: Oooh, let’s go crazy! Read Post »
Hah, I was right. Some of us aren’t smarter than the animals! It seems there was a bloke who picked himself up a friendly young woman in a bar. They made there way to the railway tracks, where they proceeded to do the horizontal tango (you know, the shag nasty … bumping uglies … bonking and
The ultimate … er, climax Read Post »
I don’t know whether I’m more angry, sad or embarrassed at the internet news censorship ruling by a New Zealand judge last week. Manukau District Court judge David Harvey has decided newspapers, television and radio can name the two men charged with murdering South Auckland teenager John Hapeta on August 12. Even their images are
Online ban was never going to work Read Post »
How ridiculous is it that Pharmac — the government agency that pharmaceutical purchasing agency — has decided to give the okay to government funding for flavoured condoms? It was just a few weeks ago that Pharmac turned down funding for 12-month courses of the breast cancer drug Herceptin and there have been many other controversial decisions
Well that just sucks (ooh, a bad pun) Read Post »
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) Well, how’s that for sporting prowess? I’m not talking about “those” Games that I’m boycotting, I’m talking about the Stags and the eblacks. Our very own Southland Stags took out a win over Manawatu on Friday night (yay), giving me something to focus on that
Glad I didn’t watch that faked opening Read Post »
(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) The Olympic Games get under way tomorrow and while other years I’ve been pretty happy to sit in front of the telly, cheering on our Kiwi sporting heroes, this time around I’m boycotting the Games. In these rather fragile economic times, when businesses are struggling
So why won’t I be gawking at the Games? Read Post »
Isn’t it wonderful, how this internet thing works? Here I am, not yet fully moved in after the wee renovation job on my site and already the spammers have found my blog and posted a comment pointing me to information on penis enlargement. Because, well … we all want to know how to make our
