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Public Address 12/12/05 - Scary
Monday, 12 December 2005, 12:18 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
In the last couple of years, the slightly foggy concept of "race relations" has ridden high in surveys of issues of concern to New Zealanders. That might be put in context by what happened in Sydney yesterday... More >>
Public Add. 9/12: 1 More to the Big Shiny Machine
Friday, 9 December 2005, 4:30 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Righto. This is it: no more coffee posts after today's 4000-odd words. Apart from anything else, editing up your celebrations and laments keeps taking me over my two-cups-a-day limit. But damn, it's been a thing, hasn't it? So, once more to the big shiny machine ... More >>
Public Address 08/12/05 - American Taliban
Thursday, 8 December 2005, 3:56 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Kansas university professor Paul Mirecki, who devised a course describing intelligent design as "mythology", has been tailgated then beaten by two men who made reference to his course as they dealt to him... More >>
Public Address 07/12/05 - Double Shot
Wednesday, 7 December 2005, 12:57 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
The Kiwi dollar on the precipice and looking at a hard landing. A cabinet minister on the ropes. Chilling tales of torture. But what gets the email flowing? Coffee... More >>
Public Address 06/12/05 - Balls
Tuesday, 6 December 2005, 4:03 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
My guess for a while has been that in the matter of David Benson Pope something happened one day in class with a tennis ball but that it did not constitute the life-shattering abuse that his political opponents alleged... More >>
Public Address 05/12/05 - Mentor As Anything
Monday, 5 December 2005, 1:33 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Hong Kong's 'Honkies' aren't really known as the ripping-some-mad-sh*t-up type. But they try. Around 100,000-200,000 of them took to the streets today in a massive demonstration to protest against plans by the Government to slow down democratic reforms in Hong ... More >>
Public Address 01/12/05 - Living Together
Thursday, 1 December 2005, 1:39 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I was hoping the Herald would change the headline on a story about the West Auckland stabbings that went up on its website yesterday afternoon - Stabbing latest in series of attacks by psychiatric patients - because it was frankly misleading... More >>
Public Address 30/11/05 - Coffee And Culture
Wednesday, 30 November 2005, 1:21 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Somebody served me a long black without a crema last week. In Wellington. The café had everything else: nice décor, convivial company, Cafenet connectivity, that capital city buzz. But no crema. Certainly, I am a bit of a nut about this sort of thing... More >>
Public Address 28-29/11/05 - Call Of The Wild
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 3:49 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
After defecting from the Communist Party, my grandfather worked the Golden Triangle with a fleet of trucks as an opium smuggler. When the family got to Singapore from Burma, the PAP tried to hire him as a political strategist - Nguyen Tuong Van's not ... More >>
Public Address 24/11/05 - Conduct Unbecoming
Thursday, 24 November 2005, 3:44 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
A class act, our new Minister of Immigration. Some in the English-language communities already refer to him as 'Silent T'; perhaps his new Mandarin name shall be David ??liffe. Caught mocking Pansy Wong's accent during Parliamentary Question Time, by ... More >>
Public Address 22/11/05 - Any Amount Of Erudition
Thursday, 24 November 2005, 2:16 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I had written a pungent and thorough post about the use and abuse of language, and I do have a couple of good guest posts about TVNZ in the bag, but given that my colleagues have chimed in with any amount of erudition, I'll content myself with some one-eyed ... More >>
Public Address 23/11/05 - Most Egregious Examples
Thursday, 24 November 2005, 1:51 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Cushla McKinney alerted me to the list of the 10 "most egregious examples of politically correct language found in 2005 by the Global Language Monitor in its annual global survey," whose carefully contrived novelty value has earned it ... More >>
Public Address 21/11/05 - Home Again
Monday, 21 November 2005, 5:28 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Well, that two months went far too quickly: from London to Berlin, then Paris and Bordeaux, a drive across to Uzes and on down through Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples to Sorrento where we picked up a car and drove down into the heel of the boot, back ... More >>
Public Address 17-18/11/05 - Rugby Will Be Winner
Friday, 18 November 2005, 12:29 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
I've been a little surprised that no one today appears to have noted that when we host Rugby World Cup 2011, it will (failing some sort of coalition collapse) also be an election year. And that if the tournament dates are similar to those in Australia ... More >>
Public Address 16/11/05 - Communication Fatigue
Wednesday, 16 November 2005, 10:50 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
"Could you point out Che Tibby for me?" asked the nice woman from State Services. Over there, I said - the tall dude in the blue shirt. And by the way, you're the third person to ask me that in 10 minutes... More >>
Public Address 15/11/05 - Revolution In Maori Time
Tuesday, 15 November 2005, 12:23 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Two weeks ago, Pita Sharples called for an inquiry into the use of Maori tikanga by government agencies and questioned whether it was done "for the benefit of the state more than for the benefit of the people"... More >>
Public Address 14/11/05 - Updatin'
Monday, 14 November 2005, 1:37 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Just a quick post today to say thanks to everyone who came along last night to the Karajoz Great Blend in Auckland, and who stayed and listened and enjoyed themselves. Our guest, Ashley Highfield of the BBC, was most impressed... More >>
Public Address 11/11/05 - Five Post Frenzy
Friday, 11 November 2005, 12:36 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
Thanks to Stephen Judd for directing me to the EFF translation of the Sony BMG End User License Agreement for its malware music CDs. Who knew that if you're declared bankrupt you have to erase all the music you've bought from your computer? Seriously... More >>
Public Address 10/11/05 - Mo French
Thursday, 10 November 2005, 12:30 am | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
There were varied responses to yesterday's post about the French riots. A couple of readers mentioned the 1995 French film La Haine ("Hate"), which explores themes of racism and violence in suburban Paris... More >>
Public Address 06/11/05 - Worf Vs Tuvok
Wednesday, 9 November 2005, 1:04 pm | HARD NEWS from Russell Brown
One of the things I recall most strongly about the occasions I visited Paris is that they had three kinds of police - and all of them were pricks. You could be arrested if you were caught without ID, and my more romantic illusions about Paris parks were ... More >>
