Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Once upon a time, a little before the invention of the I-phone and the first season of ‘Love Island’, in a land not so far away, in fact right under our feet, an angelic race of
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Donald Trump like him or like him slightly less (hey, this is a centre-right site) certainly knows how to name call. He has the unerring ability of the schoolyard bully to come up with the perfect
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Calling a politician ‘red’ is often a smear, an attempt to muddy the boundary between well-meaning lefty and full on commie crank. But in Bernie Sanders’s case the descriptor is accurate. He openly calls himself
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Kamala Harris is the perfect anti-Trump candidate – a photo negative inversion of the Don. In fact, if they ever meet, the universe may implode such is their perfect cosmic opposition. Trust me, its physics. She’s
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds New Zealand politics can often be a dull, tiresome affair. Kind of like my first marriage but with less angry heckling. By contrast, American politics never fails to intrigue. It’s the stakes. If it employed its
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds In the great works of dystopic fiction, 1984, Brave New World, and Robo Cop 3: He’s Back To Lay Down The Law, the state looms large as the enemy of liberty. It is not mere coincidence
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Death and taxes, they say, are the two unavoidable facts of existence. But taxes can be avoided if you sleep in Albert Park and play the bongo drums for spare change outside McDonald’s. Death, on the
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Warning This leaked memo is a work of fiction and is satirical. The following was found in the men’s restroom of a Wellington Massage Parlour by a lady…of my acquaintance. TOP SECRET MEMO FOR GREEN
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds A fortnight ago our government took on an awesome responsibility: the wellbeing of 4.8 million souls. The ‘wellbeing’ budget, after suffering more leaks than a hedgehog’s raincoat, was unveiled to the world and immediately received
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Information Satire This week John Black is volunteering at a leper colony in East Africa. His place is taken by a well-known television reporter… THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT BROWN SUPREMACY IN NEW ZEALAND A brave expose
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds MARIJUANA IS A FILTHY DRUG AND MAKES YOU RETARDED…WHEREAS ALCOHOL AND CIGARS MAKE YOU SMART AND BRAVE A pseudo-scientific inquiry by John Black A year and a half out from the cannabis referendum and the
Information Satire Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds There is a time in every man’s life when he must stare the cyclops of destiny in its ocular singularity and neither flinch nor flee. Wellington at Waterloo, Custer at Little Bighorn, Mel Gibson
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds The essence of the conservative attitude is perhaps best illustrated by G.K Chesterton?s metaphor of the fence. Imagine a fence across a road. A progressive (or ?reformer? as Chesterton has it) says ?I don?t
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Monty Python’s Life of Brian, that classic, scabrous machine-gunning of Christian piety has turned 40 years old. In the spirit of Easter, Event Cinemas Queen St scheduled a screening on Holy Thursday night. There was
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Information Satire As somebody once said, You should try everything once except incest and Morris dancing. (Who exactly said that we are unsure but when you reflect on how they knew to steer clear of the first
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds I’m half-Maori and half-Scottish: One half of me wants to get drunk and the other half doesn’t want to pay for it. The ten-year-old John Black heard this joke on the
