Jamie Whyte is proving to be a bit strange and prone to thoughtless pronouncements. Like Colin Craig without hair. In an interview on Ruminator he stated he didn’t think the State should deny consenting adult siblings the right to marry if they wanted to. Just because. It was a bit strange. In any case, his strangeness… Read More Incest is as bad as voting for ACT: Māori & personal freedom
Close to the time of his death, my ancestor, Tutereinga, was asked where he wished to be buried. He answered: E koro ana mate koe, e hiahia ana koe kia takato koe i te taha o mātua e moe mai rā i te tihi o Mauao? E kao, ēngari me moe ahau ki Tahataharoa kia rongo ai… Read More Developing injustice: Māori, land developers and the future of grievance
At Auckland’s Big Gay Out, in a surreal moment, John Key claimed he would “definitely win” a game of beer pong against Labour leader David Cunliffe. “Wouldn’t be any doubt about it,” the PM said. David Cunliffe responded in kind, claiming “I could, I’m sure – if the moment arose – drink him under the… Read More In the battle for control of NZ, Key and Cunliffe wave their phalluses at each other
WARNING: This is not a positive feel-good Waitangi Day column. I begin as did Paulo Freire: To the oppressed, and to those who suffer with them, and fight at their side. This image appeared in the NZ Herald newspaper on Waitangi Day:Like others, I hope the use of a White Power image was inadvertent, though… Read More Waitangi: it’s time to break the leash
Technology Sabbath tomorrow. See you all on Sunday. Remember the words of Pope Francis: “The internet… is a gift of God.” So be nice. That was my tweet last Friday evening. I quite often send out something similar each Friday, because most Saturdays our family has a Technology Sabbath. We do our best to have… Read More Bugger the detox, have a Technology Sabbath
Absolutely classic disassembling of a very creepy Trade me advert. Nice work, well worth a read.
My wife and I went to see The Secret Life of Walter Mitty on a date night. It got some bad reviews for being banal and saccharine, so I was prepared to be disappointed (incidentally, that is a great way to go in to see a film). I was not. I loved it. Reviewers who disliked it criticised the… Read More My Secret Life as Walter Mitty
In the Comments section of my last blog on pōwhiri, I and others have had a spirited debate about tradition, colonisation, and gender roles. One of my assertions is that the pōwhiri has been subject to colonisation and transformed by the experience. I wanted to follow up on this and consider what may have happened… Read More Pōwhiri is a reinvented tradition
In a pre-match warm-up for this election year, the Speaker and the NZ Herald have stretched their conservative credentials by cleverly feigning outrage at both the misogynistic and outdated cultural processes of Māori people and the spectre of political correctness that requires Parliament to follow those very processes. All of this apparently began at the… Read More Pōwhiri have a purpose; and it is not to dominate women
Every day we are bombarded by images of horror. Violence and death on a scale that might cause you to ask if there is something fundamentally flawed in our make-up. Somewhere deep down, do we actually desire our own destruction? Well, have a careful look at this graph: That is not an error. There has been a… Read More Everywhere I look, peace is breaking out
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