For my wife’s birthday, we were gifted tickets to Trinity Roots, who were playing at the Wanganui Savage Club in Whanganui. Suffice to say, they were outstanding, and the atmosphere was suitably eclectic and friendly, alcohol flowed freely and clouds of marijuana smoke wafted outside, across the front of the hall. But it was the venue that… Read More Wanganui Savage Club
Obama stood yesterday to speak to the UN General Assembly (http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/09/24-3). Like every other world leader, he was allocated 15 minutes. He spoke for 43 minutes. Now obviously he covered a lot of ground in that time, but some themes stood out; in particular his portrayal of the USA as “exceptional” for its capacity to… Read More Insecurity Council
At the time of writing, Oracle are four races off dashing the hopes of a nation by retaining the America’s Cup. Every now and then I wish I was part of that nation whose hopes are about to be dashed. I have regularly made smarmy remarks about Emirates Team NZ’s campaign on Twitter for my own amusement over… Read More My cup overfloweth…
For those of us enrolled on the electoral roll, we are about to receive our local body elections voting papers. As with most local body elections, your struggle will probably be to find someone whose name you recognise and whom you can stomach voting for. I have noticed a sweeping use of the word ‘change’ in… Read More Local Body Theology
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