Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A recently published book by Jeff Jarvis, a New York University Professor of Journalism, “The Gutenberg Parenthesis” came under justified ridicule for some of its sweeping statements. I’m certainly not recommending it. However, it did flush up one curiosity, namely that circa 1500 very
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com It’s a fairly regular occurrence for economists, historians and the like to poke fun in studies at the age-old practise (common with the ancient Greeks) of older generations bemoaning the contemporary decline of life when compared to the “good old days”. Stuff ran such
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I was touched and appreciative of the flood of kind comments when I mentioned I would soon end this Blog (after the election). There’s a number of reasons I won’t go into but it’s increasingly a problem given I spend most of
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I’ve followed our politics since the 1949 election and say without hesitation that the current Green Party mob is the shabbiest lot of the post-war period with one, never to be matched, exception. Namely the abominable Jami-Lee Ross whose catastrophic political career ended with his
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com On and on the political commentators go, babbling sheer nonsense about the bloody polls. They shouldn’t need me to tell them; the polls do not work with politics anymore and haven’t done since the turmoil after-effect of Rogernomics which threw our hitherto political
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com It’s long overdue for some restraints on the Historic Places outfit, currently travelling under the Heritage NZ moniker. Why incoming governments constantly change departments and agencies’ names is a mystery, never more so than with the current hopeless lot by a country mile, the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Surely it’s way long overdue for legislation to prescribe the role of local government. Currently, it’s seemingly carte blanche as reflected by a recent extraordinary action by the Wellington City Council. Specifically, it (or some of its Councillors) decided to become involved in
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Currently, Kiwis are losing nearly 200 million dollars annually to scams. It is an extraordinary amount which testifies to the decline of our newspapers’ readership, they regularly publishing warnings against accepting plausible sounding messages purporting to come mainly from banks, but also other activities. Half
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com It’s no secret the Anglican church is on its deathbed everywhere, both memberships and church attendance in free fall and churches being closed and sold. So too with the Church of Scotland now on the verge of collapse. Half a century back with a
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Retired scientist Dr Bob Brockie recently penned the enclosed article for this blog. In these often contentious and gloomy times, it’s always heartening to encounter some good news. GOOD NEWS The illusion of moral decline. Is the world becoming more immoral? This month, two American
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A friend of mine, a famous in his field Berkeley Professor wrote the following in a recent letter to me. “Dear Bob, Re “Indigenous People”, I took my son to the Bay Area Children’s Theatre in Berkeley on Sunday. A good show but below the
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com We claim to be a democracy in which equal participation in the political process is open to everyone. It’s simply not true and has never been. Huge financial advantages lie with existing Parliamentary Parties, notably in travel expenses used for campaigning in election years, paid
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Former President Barack Obama criticised the 4 days news blitz re the Titanic sub drama compared to the relative silence on the circa 500 mainly Pakistani migrant lives lost in the crowed fishing boat off the Greek coast. The clear innuendo was racism. That was bloody
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Melissa is a Senior lecturer (Education) at Waikato university and a Council member of the Free Speech Union. Her article below attacking diversity quotas for Maori in our shameless universities should be seen in the light of her own part-Maori heritage. When academic freedom is no
