The MacDoctor gets somewhat irritated by the furore generated by three-strike warnings, especially when they are blatantly misrepresented – like the nonsense being generated about the 21-year-old recidivist, Elijah Akeem Whaanga (I like the way my spellchecker offers me the alternative spelling of “whinge” for his surname). He is represented as having a third strike warning issued [...]

Sometime I wonder exactly how much news is generated by the media internally. A TV3 poll on “The Vote” asked whether New Zealanders considered New Zealand to be a Racist country. Apparently 76% of people thought we were. I question the validity of these TV run polls and wonder if they are not just simply [...]

The UN committee on the rights of the child are concerned that we have insufficient rights for children in New Zealand. They imply that this is the cause of our “staggeringly high” infant mortality statistics. This would be impressive if we actually had high infant mortality stats, but we don’t. New Zealand’s infant mortality rate [...]

Rosemary McLeod produces a classical White Liberal Guilt Trip piece in todays SST. It is very impressive in that it contains both pathos and pathetic at the same time. Blanket Man is Maori, and wears his blanket much how Maori did when Europeans first arrived here to settle. I find photographs taken of them then [...]

Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article You can always count on the Herald to provide some good spam but yesterday they have outdone themselves by providing Front Page spam for us. Drink driving: why the law must change A test in which a Weekend Herald [...]

Apparently there is a war on obesity. Trouble is, there does not seemed to be a well-defined enemy in this war. Is it the fast food industry? Perhaps it is the actual fat in foods? Maybe it is the obese person themselves? Or their wicked, neglectful parents? Or perhaps it is carbohydrates, not fats, that [...]

I’m willing to bet that there was a nervous tinge to the laughter when John Key made his joke about being on the Tuhoe “menu”. Everyone there would have instantly spotted that it was a very politically incorrect remark, for a Prime Minister. True to form, the left wing blogs have spent the day making [...]

There is no doubt which side of the world-view divide the Herald on Sunday sits. They report: Sacked for teaching King Lear Shakespearean tragedy has become high farce, after a Christian high school sacked a teacher for using a “morally defiling” King Lear text in class. Suzette Martin, 40, was sacked from the private Westmount School [...]

Gordon Brown’s gaffe is the main news in the UK. I notice a curious silence in the Left-wing blogosphere about it, except for the odious No Right Turn who thinks Brown was justified in calling Gillian Duffy (66) a bigot. Malcolm goes one further and uses the term “Bigoted Racist” for good measure. Apparently saying [...]

The Political Correctness Nazis are attempting to ban Tintin again. In faint mitigation, the perpetrator of the latest banning attempt is at least congolese and is objecting to the admittedly absurd racial stereotypes in Tintin in the Congo, probably the worst of the Tintin books (in my opinion). This is not the first time this [...]