Blogs I like today
A few worthwhile reads from other blogs:
Anna McM at the Hand Mirror continues a fascinating discussion on the value, or otherwise, of rugby. You’ll also want to read as background the Hand Mirror’s earlier pieces on the casual way our rugby media has brushed aside accusations of rape against the English rugby team as either a distraction from the more important business of football, or an incentive to fire up for the big game.
Poneke enjoys a bus ride home and even beats his or her friend who was riding in a taxi.
The Standard continues to talk about peak oil, this time joining Sue Kedgley and Keith Locke questioning whether the correct response to $2.10 for petrol is really more tarmac in our major cities. I guess Steve will be introducing himself to Poneke on the bus!
No Right Turn come up with yet another reason to oppose tasers. (Actually given the two options Idiot/Savant presents, personally I might opt for the taser treatment.)
June 26th, 2008 at 5:25 am
Not wishing to accept what the rugby players were informally accused, but far from a distraction this story had way to much media attention compared with other rape cases. Just because of the players being celebrities we hear about some drunk stripper stumbling out of the hotel and complaining about not being payed to the police (ok maybe didn’t happen exactly like this). I think it would be better to be not mentioned at all on the media as kiwis admire rugby players and knowing they do such things can only make them seem more acceptable.
Tasers are great, I think prison wardens should have special ones hooked up to the mains power, fry the bastards! Too many people in this world as it is without having all the degenerate criminals leeching off honest foke like us.
We need not much more tarmac, we need electric rail, so I can set my robot car to drive me home on the rail when i am too pissed to do so.
Dude where is my electric car?
June 26th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Solar powered solar power:
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June 26th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
From CommonDreams.org: Crime Is Falling - But Our Obsession With Locking People Up Keeps Growing [linky].
A UK perspective, but interesting none-the-less…
June 26th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Sue K and all other Wellingtonians who are against Transmission Gully should be had up for treason.
Do the Greens really have a policy of “no new roads” when it has been proven time and time again that the coastal road in and out of Wellington is a killer.
Despite the wishes of the more extreme Green element cars are with us to stay, we NEED the motorway’s to be finished in Auckland and we NEED Transmission gully.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
“Sue K and all other Wellingtonians who are against Transmission Gully should be had up for treason”
Yikes! A mass treason trial beckons! I guess we’d better halt Transmission Gully and move the money to building gulags in the Chathams. Oh damn, I just incriminated myself, 20 years in the crayfish mines beckons.
June 26th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Sam
You might change your mind when somebody you know or love is killed on that road.
June 27th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Is Transmission gully going to be fatality-free then?