Now that 2011 is done and dusted let’s review the legal year. Okay, I’m bored just thinking about that. Let’s instead examine what the craziest lawsuits of 2011 were. How about the college student who sued a hooker for $US1.8 million, because she didn’t spend enough time with him? He claimed she left half an…
Apparently some bloggers are getting paid big money to go feral on opponents of big business. Big money. I’m not talking a can of coke and a $5 McDonalds voucher either, although I probably would turn class traitor for a free Big Mac. So if $10,000-$20,000* is the going rate for turning blog tricks, as…
All Blacks captain Richie McCaw was given the supreme award at the Steinlager New Zealand Literature Awards last night. McCaw’s epic book, Richie, won the main award, the Literature Cup, as well as picking up a number of other prizes. The win takes the All Blacks back to the top of the world literature rankings…
Some of those killed in yesterday’s elephant-trampling catastrophe would have earlier considered reviewing their life and trauma insurance arrangements, an insurance expert says. And the families of those squashed by the angry beasts would be overwhelmed by the desire to communicate with the souls of their lost ones via psychics and other spiritual mediums, says…
I know that during this holiday period the last thing journos want to be thinking about is serious work. That’s why during quiet news cycles such as the one we are in, the news is filled with stories of accidents and celebrities. The perfect summer news story combines both accidents and celebrities. To help out…
In relating the circumstances of the death of my brothers and my own descent into this terminal madness, I am aware that my current situation must create doubt as to the authenticity of my narrative. But I also know that my clinging hope that some person of learning will read my tale and make something…
I don’t know about you, but I find it most inconvenient that just as I have some leisure hours to spend blogging about politics and politicians, the bastards have gone on holiday. Maybe they will come back to work early if there’s some sort of crisis. Like a war. We haven’t had one of those…
Hard-hitting Herald journo Bevan Hurley reports: Wedding bells have been ringing out across the country in what’s shaping up as a summer of celebrity love. All Black Ali Williams and his bride Casey Green tied the knot in Queenstown, sticking to tradition – Green showed up 18 minutes late. The star lock forward has opened…
The fact that Gaddafi, bin Laden and Krazy Kim bit the dust, and that we finally won that stupid piece of silverware (despite doing our best not to), can scarcely compensate for the shit year the people of Christchurch had. Other disappointments were the election result (I fully acknowledge that whether that result was a…
(Because my blog output is currently limited, here’s another blogpost from earlier in the year) Oh I Say! 11 April 2011 More observations from touring British Conservative MP Sir Giles Fortescue-Snoot. I say the chaps on the West Coast of the South Island are a queer lot. And I don’t mean queer like cousin Bertie…
Imperator Fish 
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