The man who was arrested after he flew into a rage when Wendy’s staff got his burger order wrong, insists he is not a violent man: He described the incident as a “communication breakdown kind of thing” that escalated out of control. The furniture removal worker, who said he was not an aggressive person, said yesterday [...]
A survivor of a hunting “accident” asks the question “Why are people still being shot?“. The MacDoctor can help with this one. He was an ED doctor for 9 years in Southland, literally the “Happy Hunting Ground” of New Zealand. Of the dozens of shooting incidents he has seen, he has yet to see one [...]
It is probably just as well that the Idiot at No Right Turn does not allow comments on his blog, because the drivel that he writes would attract the very worst of trolls. And terse comments from the MacDoctor. Take one of today’s offerings: John Key’s response to introducing charter schools despite never having campaigned [...]
My friend ScrubOne suggests that my next post will be on this. Who am I to argue with such wisdom? A deluge of abusive drunks is straining Wellington Hospital’s emergency department, clogging its systems and demoralising staff to such an extent that at least one doctor is considering leaving her job. Nurses say they dread [...]
It is sad to watch the terrible debilitating effect of Key Derangement Syndrome on opposition politicians and their pet lap-blogs. Every week there is a new attempt to smear John Key with some sort of scandal. Each week is more pathetic than the last. This past week we have had the unedifying sight of Labour [...]
Metiria Turei and David Cunliffe have both outdone themselves by complaining that the Prime Minister (you know, the leader of our country) commandeered a helicopter to get him to an appointment (as opposed to a rugby match or something). Apart from finding the churlish, petty comments quite nauseating, the first thought that ran through the [...]
The furor around Sir Peter Jackson’s e-mails about the Hobbit saga provides an interesting insight into the mind-set of left-wing bloggers. Unanimously, they all denigrate Jackson as a liar and some sort of evil corporate smurf because of the apparent discrepancy in two emails that he sent during the hobbit saga. On the 1st of [...]
The Boards of 225 schools have said they will refuse to implement the achievement targets of the New National Standards next year. This is hardly a great shock. It has been quite obvious that the problem with the new standards from the teacher’s union perspective is not the standards themselves, but the achievement targets that [...]
Okay, maybe not hates, but I couldn’t resist the alliteration. My heading is prompted by the Herald’s editor returning to bonehead mode with this piece. His/Her conclusion: Confirmation that The Hobbit will be shot in this country is welcome. But the cost should not have been anywhere near so extortionate. Extortion is a bit of [...]
One only has to look at the furor in the blogosphere and the media around Paul Henry’s obnoxious remarks, about the race of Governor General Anand Satyanand, to know why TV One persists in keeping him on. Does that man know how to polarise people, or what? CanWest must be seething. They didn’t manage this [...]
