Not addiction, choice.

Hill Cone is a columnist in the local fishwrap, and one who has suffered a fair bit -- and like many post modern columnists, written about it, because the personal is political. And she uses Addiction. I dislike this term: I prefer habits. Her point remains: do your habits isolate you or connect you with… Read More

The Dalrock hypothesis [Quotage for any female readers: do not follow the narrative of this age.]

Some years ago Dalrock produced a hypothesis. That western women want to have it all, and on their terms. This includes having a great career, wonderful children, and a narrative that has moved beyond merely landing a husband and being married to him while producing two point five children, remaining beautiful and having a career -- modeled in Tom Clancy's books by Cathy Ryan,… Read More

See through the lies of this age. Honour your body.

I no longer work in the gay capital of New Zealand, but I used to. Including during the first years of the AIDS epidemic. One of the things that we saw was AIDS dementia, one of the symptoms of which was (and is, although it is rarer now) a… Read More