The Battle for Karoro
By NZB3
This notice about somebody’s wayward wheely bin raised an interesting and essential conversation on social media this week. Do you deal with problems face-to-face with people down your street or do you put out an impersonal bulletin to all the district? Is it time to be Personal or Institutional? This sort of thing is of […]
Read more..December 31, 2020
Hate Incident
By NZB3
Here’s a new level of madness in the modern-day Puritanism that is our Victimhood Culture era: The Hate Incident. I remember when “hate crime” came on the scene. Watching a film from 2016, Angry Birds, this seems quaint now as we’ve moved on through “hate speech” and escalated to “hate incident.” Offence Inflation has now […]
Read more..December 25, 2020
Eel of Fortune
By NZB3
How moronic is this? The Government, in the form of Watercare Auckland, have given the Waitakare Range eel population a stimulus package. “Cue the introduction of 100 longfin eels by Watercare to try and get on top of the issue. “All of these eels would’ve ended up on a dinner plate overseas. “You could look […]
Read more..December 13, 2020
Why Don’t Governments Do Good?
By NZB3
Sentient beings have some such a long way over the last two millions years with the ascent of man but the journey is not yet done. We’ve over-leaped mere biological evolution with incredible cultural evolution. We’ve developed the ethic of non-sacrifice to the bullies in our own tribe. We shifted it on to abstract entities […]
Read more..December 12, 2020
Parliamentary Witch Hunt Captures Itself!
By NZB3
The Government, specifically the Speaker of the House, Trevor Mallard, has given himself a traffic ticket. For what? Calling someone a rapist and it costing them their job. Who’s paying for his infringement ticket? You are. How much? None of your business. “We’re talking about serious sexual assault. Well that, for me, […]
Read more..December 9, 2020
The Becroft Tapestry
By NZB3
The Children’s Commission, headed by Andrew Becroft currently have a bizarre Public Service Announcement scroll on their home website. It’s something like a cross between an in-flight safety card and the Bayeux Tapestry. Instead of William the Conqueror killing the English and putting arrows into their King, Becroft’s tapestry illustrates the battle to overthrow poverty […]
Read more..December 5, 2020
