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Ten thousand automatons, more thousands of fireworks, and billions glued to their screens at ungodly hours of the night. What is there to show for for the counterfeit Beijing Olympics?
Jesse Owens, 1936 Olympics champion. Black man beats a white supremacist systemA vast undemocratic nation, covered in smog and fumes, countless millions of viewers concentrating on [...]

It’s a dog’s life, but not in rural Kaikoura. Picture: FreefotoKaikoura District Council’s planning department has decreed that new lifestyle block owners must not own domestic pets. That means no cats or dogs that might wreak havoc on the local wildlife. The idiot responsible for this edict is either a recent arrival from Auckland – [...]

Did you know that, to a small group of powerful alien beings, you are an insignificant fragment of something called The Human Capital Agenda?
Australian deputy PM Julia Gillard: Some say she came from Wales. Some say she came from Mars. All we know is that she’s called something unmentionableIt came as quite a shock to [...]

The airwaves are packed with commercials made by uncreative, overpaid people who persuade silly clients to spend large amounts of money inflicting baffling ads on innocent viewers who just tuned in to see something interesting. Admittedly, some commercials are better than the programmes they separate, but most of them insult our intelligence.
Here are some recent [...]

A sick, 61-year-old former missionary is brutally beaten for no apparent reason at a bus stop in a “safe” area of Auckland, and slowly dies.
An old farmer in a remote part of Hawke’s Bay is shot dead at dawn by a killer with a high-powered rifle. There is only one escape route for the [...]

In a press statement issued on 1 October 2007, Police Minister Annette King said she was “encouraged” by the 2006/07 crime statistics just released.
Since when did we start celebrating crime figures?
In what looked like a remarkable display of complacency, Ms King went on to say she was “welcoming the almost zero increase in recorded offences [...]

Tenders are invited for a small drilling operation that may involve building a bridge. The material requirements are minimal, but you may be occasionally working partially in the dark. The working environment is extremely comfortable, and your rewards include almost unlimited time on the golf course, extensive travel, a first-class home and a top-of-the-range car [...]

So some teachers don’t like the reintroduction of the concept of failure in NCEA? Tell that to employers, who have to face the drastic consequences of academic mediocrity.
It’s no good encouraging people to breed through Working for Families handouts, when the schools turn out youngsters whose only future is one involving even more benefits, or [...]

There’s just the glint of a hint that commonsense might prevail in the debate over reckless boy racers and the needless premature deaths, injuries and damage they cause. The Government is seriously looking at compulsory third party insurance, and will open the subject to public discussion.
In early August, Grumpy Old Geezers said:
“There is only one [...]

Incredibly, six-year-olds are hurling furniture around classrooms and physically assaulting their teachers. The teachers are afraid to respond, in case parents complain to the authorities that their tiny treasures are being physically restrained.
A teachers’ union representative, discussing youth anger management on the radio, said that a good method would be to gently advise the miscreant [...]