Lindsay Perigo's 'The Total Passion for the Total Height' is now available on Amazon for Kindle.

NZ life just got a little more exciting. Let me count the ways;

1. We're going to have an election about policy, not popularity.

Brash gave another Orewa speech yesterday.

From an Instapundit reader:-

So Paul Henry's upset some of the natives again. And by natives I mean the Race Relations Commisioner, bloggers at Public Address, and residents of Grey Lynn.

So, the President's plan is to pop 30k more troops into Afghanistan. And then to start pulling them out in 18 months or so. This is the 'refined' strategy.

Hey, it's TV's Greg Gutfeld & his favourite unicorn being interviewed by a brainy-cat at Reason, people.

http://reason.tv/video/show/78...

If by unicorn you mean a cheap suit & sneakers.

This guy nukes for all time any notion that dropping the A-bomb on Hiroshima was immoral. Rather he shows, with due respect, how moral it really was.

http://miserabledonuts.blogspo...

(As an aside: This is what should be studied in English classes, as a model of letter-writing.)

What has the last 60 years of US foreign policy achieved?

(Current population estimates in brackets)

I didn't expect much from this film but, hey, I reckoned it would be filled with some great tunes. It was, but was also accompanied by some great lines:

French Prez Sarkozy speaks to US congress unequivocally praising America & what she stands for in the world ("the greatest nation.") Nice essential-point history reminder.

The Telegraph has this story of the situation the British Army face in Basra. While the US, under Gen.

Linz opens formalities