Coastal Coalition, that nasty little organisation we talked about in episode 54, has a website. It’s about as sophisticated and coherent as their billboards, so you probably won’t want to spend too long there.
One aspect caught my eye – on the right hand side of the front page is a list of organisations which support the Coastal Coalition. Mostly boating clubs and regional chambers of commerce and other fairly un-Egonomist groups. At the bottom of the list is the invitation:
If your organisation would like to be listed, please click here >>>
Where “here” is a mailto link that launches a template email to the personal email address of Coastal Coalition’s administrator – Dr Muriel Newman.
Those of you with long, terrifying memories will recognise her as the former deputy leader to Prebble’s ACT party. These days Newman divides her time between running what must be NZ’s most horrible website, The New Zealand Centre for Political Research, and being insane.
As we discussed in episode 54, Coastal Coalition are kicking up a stink about a law they don’t understand because of their fears of the rights they believe it will give to a race of people that they don’t care about without knowing a thing about the historical genesis of the issue. It’s ignorance wrapped in ignorance layered with ignorance, like a tim-tam that’s actually made out of shit. It seemed only fitting to try and see how deep this ignorance of Maori issues went. (more…)
How to completely infuriate a Frenchman. Show him this photo:
Then play him this episode, in which we list the reasons France has no right to complain about anything ever at all. Not even the above picture. Or America. France started it. Shut up, France.
