In what has to be the most bizarre over-reaction I have heard in a long time, the Herald reports that a 12-year-old girl was arrested for scrawling on her desk. That is: properly arrested in handcuffs and dragged off to the police station and given eight hours of community service as her sentence.
Wow.
I realise this [...]

The Herald is running this demented campaign at the moment to change the New Zealand flag. Clearly, anyone with a halfway-decent-functioning brain cell would realise that the best time to design a new flag would be if and when we decide to become a republic. Redesigning a flag at the moment is a meaningless exercise [...]

Obama announces.
President Barack Obama sent Congress his new budget overnight, a plan that forecasts the government spending a record US$1.66 trillion ($2.37 trillion) more than it takes in through taxes.
1.66 TRILLION deficit in a single year…
If you laid every dollar bill end to end you could walk on them through the centre of the sun [...]

A medical miracle!
Actor James McAvoy expecting first baby
Oh. Wait. I think it’s his girlfriend that’s pregnant.
As you were…
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Yet another child has been attacked by vicious dogs and severely injured. The dogs have been destroyed but the owner, unfortunately remains very much alive and able to own more dogs. Sure, he will be banned from owning dogs, but seeing as he is unlikely to have microchipped or licensed his previous dogs, this will [...]

Hark! What is that strange disembodied twittering that I hear? Is it a ghost? A telephone answering machine? a vague afterthought? Yes! It’s all three ! It’s the Invisible Phil…
Once again, Phil abandons invisibility in order to utter an inanity. It’s rather like watching a Klingon Bird of Prey on Star Trek, de-cloaking and firing, [...]

One would think that if one purchased an expensive item like an iPhone, one would actually read the manual for it. But no. Someone with an iPhone has got back from holiday to a nice, chunky bill from Telecom due to data roaming. Here is his tale of woe(ful ignorance):
“Our advice is don’t turn it [...]

What an interesting bunch of reactions to the Government providing $2.6 million worth of scholarships to allow students from low-income families to attend a private school. The Herald headline gives the initial flavour of envy:
$2.6m for posh-school entry under fire as elitist
What exactly is a “posh” school? I am familiar with a number of Christian [...]

I see John Minto is up to his old tricks again. He has organised a “protest” of less than a dozen people to demonstrate outside of the ASB Classic tennis tournament. Only this was not a peaceful protest, this was a Minto special. Armed with megaphones, they proceeded to make unmitigated nuisances of themselves by [...]

In a fine example of badly thought-out interfering law, Labour legislated work breaks last year, causing enormous difficulty for small businesses with low-levels of staff. The most obvious example were the solo air-traffic controllers at places like Invercargill who were suddenly obliged to leave their screens unattended (or find another fully-qualified air traffic controller to [...]