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Some Perspective 7 Aug 2013 | 11:41 am
With everyone all abuzz about the latest Fonterra debacle, the MacDoctor thought it may be helpful to inject a little perspective into the situation by comparing it with the SanLu scandal. SanLu Fon...
Arbeit Macht Frei 21 Jul 2013 | 10:15 am
I see Chris Trotter over at Bowalley road has now gone completely barmy (even for a lefty) and accused the National government of being Nazis with the new welfare reforms. He even goes as far as to su...
Sinking Sand 21 Jul 2013 | 08:57 am
Forgive me if I am somewhat sceptical of Obama’s tearful claim that he was the victim of racial profiling too. It strikes the MacDoctor that, beyond his early childhood, Mr. Obama has had a relatively...
The Rosetta Phrase 27 Jun 2013 | 02:06 pm
nicked from vexnews The Rosetta stone was the key that helped to unlock the meaning of Egyptian heiroglyphics. Without it, we would have no understanding of the writings on so many Eqyptian artifa...
Spam Journalism #90 23 Jun 2013 | 12:42 pm
Spam Journalism: The spurious use of sensational headlines to add spice to an otherwise pointless article. Probe reveals drug scam Drug company bosses have been secretly recorded boasting that they ...
Yet Another Plague 22 Jun 2013 | 03:04 pm
The new scary virus plague creeping into the media is the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV). The MacDoctor thinks that virologists are not happy unless they have at least one nasty virus tha...
Hidden Cost 18 Jun 2013 | 01:38 pm
Yet another survey showing that, overall, women earn less than men. Cue another pointless Herald article with all the usual wailing and gnashing of teeth you would expect. Some of these people seem to...
Random Thought #6 17 Jun 2013 | 03:52 pm
Have you notice how Grabour’s (Greens/Labour) report on their manufactured manufacturing “crisis” contain solutions that look uncannily like Grabour’s solutions for every other “crisis”. Exchange rate...
Systematic Failure 17 Jun 2013 | 12:00 am
Sunday Insight has an article from a junior doctor, Rosemary Wyber, complaining about the tedious and archaic systems currently running in the Nation’s hospitals. There is, of course, nothing new to t...
Crafar: Why the Judge is Wrong 18 Feb 2012 | 04:24 pm
If ever there was a dangerously inappropriate political football, it is the potential sale of Crafar farms to the Chinese company, Shanghai Pengxin and the hysterical xenophobia it has induced. While ...
