[Lifted from Ed Hudgins' Earth Hour thread—Linz]

I wasn't taken in but I kinda feel like I'm the only one just now.

If New Zealand is a dagger thrusting at the heart of Antarctica then Christchurch is that knife-point. This is the base-camp for everyone going on down to mix it with the penguins.

Canterbury University Law School lecturer has an opinion piece in the Christchurch Press today in relation to the Electoral Finance Bill.

The criminal jurisdiction of the USA extends to the entire planet Earth and all of the firmament of the cosmos.

We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be set free"- Cicero

After the Auckland protest march against the Electoral Finance Bill my mate and I put this short film together.

We had to destroy the human in order to save it reports PM on the group blog No Minister.

There is a huge volume of experience I need to write down for myself (and my blog) that has been generated out of my visit to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. I had one hell of a time.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are done chewing on me and have spat me out at last.

SOLO spam's really had a strong showing this month. I mention this for no particular reason...

It's Bracks no more, in the Australian state of Victoria- my sometime home.

Most contrary blog commenter (who is to me what I am to most blogs I read,) Angie Schultz, prompts me

Sex sells.

According to the following, politics sells too.

Sells bottled water at least...

Interesting interview from Australia's ABC radio, blogged about on Hitting Metal With Hammer blog..

Trevor Loudon reports, at blog that the new film "WE'RE HERE TO HELP" will be out on November 7.

NumeroNazis vs Kiwi libertarian...

And the trial winds on....

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4127067a12855.html

How'd it come to this? March 7th, last year....

"Death to Destiny Church!"
"Death to Scouting New Zealand!"
"Death to Shinto!"
"Death to The Salvation Army"
"Death to St Stephens Anglican Church!"
"Death to St Bedes Colledge!!"
"Death to Parnell Christian Woman's Knitting Circle (meets every second Sunday at Jubilee Hall, bring your own wool and scones)!! Yahh!"

Northland washed away by wild weather.

No sign of Northy Objectivist Julien Pistorius, who is still out of cell phone range.

Rotorua news story reports...

"Well bugger me. In a move that would have good keen bloke Barry Crump spitting in his grave - and no doubt delivering a few choice expletives of his own - Rotorua police are cracking down on public profanity and spitting in the street."

New Zealand Herald yesterday reports the "wisdom" of Otago U's Dr Jim Flynn...

"Everyone knows if we only allowed short people to reproduce there would be a tendency in terms of genes for height to diminish. Intelligence is no different from other human traits,...A persistent genetic trend which lowered the genetic quality for brain physiology would have some effect eventually."

ABC radio: The Director of the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney, Professor Alan Dupont, says a certain loss of liberty must be expected in the pursuit of terrorist investigation

Is this on the Onion yet or what?

"Technology such as cloned part-robot humans used by organised crime gangs pose the greatest future challenge to police, along with online scamming"