Public Address 26/05/08 - Gassed Up

Gassed Up | May 26, 2008 09:16
David Slack on his own account
Congratulations, then Scott Dixon Winner of the Indy 500 and hugely talented New Zealander. This makes your name the most illustrious in a list that was already awesome: Denny Hulme, Bruce McLaren, Burt Munro, Helen Clark. Churlish types might quibble about the fossil fuels you had to burn to win...
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Sneaky brackets | May 26, 2008 02:20
Keith Ng: Everyone else is wrong
It reared its ugly head with ACT's "bracket racket" speech two weeks ago. Full marks for the rhyming, less for the making of sense. I counted a dozen statistics describing the same phenomenon, and all of them were increasingly useless derivatives of the same two numbers.
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Mix tape 2008 | May 23, 2008 15:36
Graham Reid's many things
Mansion on the Hill: For those interested and who sent me their comments regarding the Auckland War Memorial Museum here's the update. I attended an interesting meeting on Tuesday night with a number of other people and we discussed our personal responses to the museum, what we thought its strengths...
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The Winter of Our Discontent
Posted at 9:36AM on 26 May 08
Craig Ranapia muses on The Tragical Farce of Phil Goff and That Interview" and concludes that "solid reporting takes time, effort and often just isn’t ‘sexy’. Certainly not as sexy as goading a politician into a sin-sational soundbite, or an unguarded thought you can later sneer at as a ‘flip-flop’ or ‘u-turn’" ...
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