Archive for May 27th, 2005

Killing me swiftly

Friday, May 27th, 2005

A frogblog reader has asked me whether I have any comment to make on this “frog blender” animation. Basically, it allows you to watch one of my kind get spun around in water at various speeds. At speed one, the poor, lone froggie dies a slow death, agonised by the anticipation of being carved up […]

Praise on Tibet protest

Friday, May 27th, 2005

It’s gratifying that Rod’s Tibet protest is getting praise from people who usually have very little time for the Greens. Yes, some right-wing bloggers and the editorial writers at the Dominion Post have found space to praise yesterday’s protest.
Says the Dominion Post:
There is a fine line between politeness and cravenness, and between good diplomacy and […]

Sort it out, fellas

Friday, May 27th, 2005

First, it was race relations. Then, it was welfare. Now, it’s tax cuts. National seems to be having a recurring problem. They can’t get their spokespeople to sing from the same song sheet as their leader on the issues they’re supposed to be campaigning on. It lead to Georgina te Heuheu and Katherine Rich being […]

Labour in the Greens’ shadow over solar

Friday, May 27th, 2005

As sure as the sun shines, Labour likes to borrow the Greens’ ideas on energy and make a cut-price gesture to the issues we raise.
But we could be charitable and say that it is surely a coincidence that the day after Jeanette launches our policy to really rev up the solar water […]