[For the benefit of our international readership: Maori are the indigenous people of New Zealand; Pakeha is a term used to describe Caucasian New Zealanders; The Treaty of Waitangi is a significant founding document of our nation over which many historical and current differences have arisen around its role, interpretation and application.] Recently I read […]
Entries Tagged as 'Social Commentary'
Maori and Pakeha are Not Partners to the Treaty of Waitangi
February 11th, 2009 20 Comments
Tags: Jurisprudence · Role of the State · Treaty of Waitangi
Credits and Media Tactics
February 9th, 2009 2 Comments
I just had a quick look at KiwiBlog and noted David’s piece on the media not properly crediting stories broken by bloggers. This has happened to us on occaision, the Labour Moron sign springs to mind (which, since he put his head above the parapet, David himself failed to hat tip us properly on – […]
Tags: Media
Bush’s Legacy
January 16th, 2009 42 Comments
I am always slightly disturbed when I encounter Bush-haters amongst my friends. Disturbed not because it surprises me that Bush-hater exist but because my friends are otherwise smart, informed, thinking people who have a healthy degree of scepticism towards the left-wing, anti-conservative values of the media and hollywood; I just don’t get how they can […]
Tags: George Bush · Iraq · US Politics · War Ethics
Roudy Protests
December 18th, 2008 3 Comments
The picketers outside Pak’n’Save are at it again. Horns began tooting and shouts began infiltrating our home so I popped my head out the door and sure enough there they all are. So far no siren or chanting or megaphone though. Thanks for that guys 🙂 UPDATE: I take that back. The chanting just began […]
Tags: Unions
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
The Inconsistent, Condescending, Paternalism of Left-Wing Feminism
February 25th, 2009 26 Comments
What do these two pictures have in common? The Hand Mirror oppose both as forms of oppression against women. In the first one the woman is being “belittled”, “denigrated”, made the subject of “idiot chauvinism“, in the second, the woman’s clothing choice is “silly” and her “sexuality is being controlled by her father“. Now look […]
Tags: Bad Reasoning · Feminism · The Hand Mirror