Not PC (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Bernard Darnton has heard so many apologies recently that he’s forgotten who said what. Ronny Hidewira was unrepentant last week when caught scamming the taxpayer for a personal holiday. Lashing out at his opponents he said, “You socialist motherfuckers have been raping our wallets and ripping us off for decades. I just wanted some of the action.” Hidewira had been caught...
Not PC (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
This week Bernard Darnton examines education’s standards. There’s been screeching recently from people opposed to new national standards in education. Apparently measuring how poorly children perform in maths will create an “education underclass”. And bathroom scales are responsible for the obesity epidemic. (By the way, that was just the most obvious example that...
Not PC (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
This week, Bernard Darnton peers through the looking-glass at claims we can devalue our way to prosperity. Fashionable worry number 373 is that the New Zealand dollar is worth too much. Over the last six months the rising dollar has made my impending trip to the UK look cheaper and cheaper. If I sold milk, which thankfully I don’t, I might be even more upset by the exchange rate...
TUMEKE! (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
... Susan Ryder : Right - Libertarian : Franklin Dr Richard McGrath : Right - Libertarian : Wairarapa Bernard Darnton : Right - Libertarian : Christchurch #5 (-) 05/2009+ "Labour MPs on issues that we care about" Labour MPs (various): Left - Labour : Wellington/NZ #6 (+2) 01/2008+ "Satire" Danyl McLauchlan : Other - ? : Wellington #7 (-1) 09/2002+ "Community of New Zealand-centric weblogs"...
Not PC (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
This week, Bernard Darnton experiments with heterodoxy. If you want to be a hit at your next party, explain how the melting of the ice caps is a good thing because it’ll make it easier to get at all that oil under the Arctic Ocean. It’s that kind of optimistic thinking, always looking for the upside, that makes capitalism the most productive economic engine ever devised. (Strictly...
Not PC (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Bernard Darnton wrote this piece about ACC several days ago, assuming that Key’s latest changes wouldn’t do much to fix anything. No editing was required. ACC is widely admired overseas, we’re told by its cheerleaders. Every other country in the world has been too awed by the scheme’s brilliance to copy it. When Libertarianz puts together its alternative budget...
