Now Republicans and Democrats alike want to reign in Big Tech Good post. That typo. Orwellian.
THE FABLE A DOG was lying upon a manger full of hay. An Ox, being hungry, came near, and offered to eat of the hay; but the envious, ill-natured cur, getting up and snarling at him, would not suffer him to touch it, Upon which the Ox, in the bitterness of ...
Too late Chris T, sorry. A lot of extremely alert people were watching your fellow legionnaires ignoring the blind bends, potholes, impassable slips and sudden drop-offs in their bold march along that particular road. As they do now.
The radio report will have been about the study at this link. A personal experience of 'debating' with a relative and listening to Trumpeters losing their minds on talkback before and since the US election has been equally revealing: https://...
With the economic waves about to crest real high next year, the PM needs to do everything she can to strengthen this little sovereign vessel. Our little sovereign vessel may be safe in the harbour, but that's not what ships are for.
Me too - and what would stop local governments from setting an example? Wairarapa where I live has four district councils that already work together on some issues. Any region has a community of interests. Every region is concerned about solar power and ...
Maybe She answered by suggesting that the devout lady might take a little care with what she was wishing for, but the media percussion section seems to have drowned out Her still small voice.
However deep the hole, one always has the choice of trying to climb out. Loser is the term for one who gets defeated by the system and stops trying. It is a technical term only. And winner is the term for one who gets rewarded by the system and keeps ...
'...in these extraordinary times it just comes across as small-minded, and more than a little dangerous to us all.' I've been wondering when the campaign strategy from this version of the National Party will come across as dangerous enough to define as ...
Good point. Yes. A slither of the shadow appears on the wall by the half-open door
Yes it's excellent - thinking of the small town I live in, I liked this quote: As one advocate of localism recently put it: “With no community, we lack both a unit to make sacrifices for – and a unit to keep assholes in check.” We need to learn how to be ...
Thank you mac1
Simple sincerity or sarcastic smartassery, the choice is so suddenly stark.
Yes x three
Sham bucolic?
Stephen Miller & his team at the Presidential Ministry of Truth, also known to many, without the faintest shred of irony, as the White House. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/us/politics/trump-mt-rushmore.html Sticking closely to the remarks on his ...
Let's swap likeable for affable which better describes what a lot of people thought they saw. Cheshire cat grins and the lean and hungry look of yonder Cassius, likeable?
And the famous shovel leaners of the MOW will be there for all those shovel-ready projects - as if it's been decreed, cometh the need, cometh the deed.
Until yesterday the New World in my small Wairarapa town had a wipe dispenser at the door. It has been empty several times and was missing today. I asked a staff member who said people had been pulling out strings of them and they can't get any more. ...
This Washington Post article by Beth Cameron is excellent, detailed and informative: When President Trump took office in 2017, the White House's National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense survived the transition intact....
That 'imminent threat' idea goes back to Tony Blair's need to justify supporting the GW Bush régime in destroying Saddam Hussein. Blair's government eventually found an ironically named lawyer, Daniel Bethlehem, who helpfully provided a clever new ...
'We need to learn a better way...' There are signs, track markers and good guides for our mountainous problems - one is Jim Shultz, author of 'A Liberal in Trump Land' (link below) Shultz started the Democracy Center when he and his wife returned to the US...
And as he swiftly created a green wall on his right at the same time... I hope you and yours are ok down there today Robert.
How can we work out how to get 'there' unless we understand - and can acknowledge - how we got 'here'? Many of us, with the advantage of age-related long-sightedness, can't un-see the many ways our brave new world unfolded after 1984; many others, some of ...
Maybe a slightly more she'll we'll be right version of this? https://www.truthdig.com/articles/will-americas-billionaires-start-a-second-civil-war/ Donald Trump: With us in charge, we will keep you safe and happy and you really don’t need to concern ...
Thoughts after the Google employees' strike https://aeon.co/ideas/solidarity-is-not-dead-how-workers-can-force-progressive-change For many people, dissenting is an uncomfortable thing to do. Only when the sense of moral outrage reaches a tipping point will...
There's also the marvellous and well known metaphor of the elephant in the room. . . This article is from 2017 but some things don't date. https://www.salon.com/2017/01/15/dont-think-of-a-rampaging-elephant-linguist-george-lakoff-explains-how-the-democrats...
Ah, yes. And for today's breezy sun after a bleak winter, for the racing lambs I saw yesterday, because Friday was National Poetry Day - and just because words, in whirls... Spring Nothing is so beautiful as Spring – When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and ...
That's lovely Robert, and we can just think of Christchurch's Red Zone to see Gaia at work among the rubble. Long live weeds and wilderness, let's hope their new green corridor plan will keep spaces for both - and the thoughtless grumble of council ride-on...
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