Wellington news…
Yesterday someone with a sense of humour put up a poster advertising a fake newspaper called New Standard. The headline ran: “Rickard says sorry – gives back $500,000” Yeah, right!
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All Grey
Spot the difference. I woke this morning and threw on the TV to watch the last half of the All Blacks play Scotland. I had heard on Morning Report that they were wearing the alternative strip. Naturally I figured that’d be fair enough. Scotland wear dark blue and in the dim light of the northern […]
Subway vs. McDonalds
There’s money to be made in food, but it seems that lately there’s more money to be made in food research. Yet another study , to try and understand why, and how, people overeat, has been conducted at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. The study compared the eating habits of people who ate at Subway (the […]
Getting your hands dirty
Just spotted John McGrath, mayoral candidate for Wellington, supervising 4, maybe 5 workers erecting a campaign sign on Khandallah Road. He stood there, looking very grim with his arms folded, not keen on destroying the crease of his pressed jeans, or muddying his manicured hands. I can’t imagine Carl Gifford standing back. In fact, Carl’s […]
Destiny’s child
UPDATE ALREADY: Who is the baby in the Gordon Copeland / Richard Lewis co-leader Destiny (or not) Christian political party? It looks like it’s over, already, less than 24 hours after the announcement. How sad, how tragic…how underwhelming. Check out news reports here. So Gordon Copeland isn’t Destiny’s child after all. The whole sorry incident […]
Student tasered for asking a question
It’s shocking. Don’t watch if you believe in the right to free speech. At a John Kerry forum in Gainesville, Florida a student began asking a few lengthy questions – one of which revolved around the alleged vote rigging which supposedly lost Kerry the chance of becoming President. The senator was ready to answer the […]