An experiment

There is a new site up in the pukeko domain -- Darkness Talks. It's a wordpress & impress mashup, primarily for putting slides up. At present the talks are limited to 20 slides, and I have to show videos as external links. Each presentation has… Read More

Discipline beats ideology.

Sometimes you look at scripture and you know you read last night the introduction. The Cappy wrote this yesterday.
I'll say it again, because it's true, leftists tend to be less attractive because to be attractive means you have to work at it. You have to eat right, you have to work out, you have to expend some effort in looking appealing to the…
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Shun, don’t silence.

I took time off work yesterday. I found myself coughing and spluttering throughout a meeting, becoming grumpier (and getting a lower and lower blood sugar). This morning I woke with a soaked through T shirt. There is something going on: half the… Read More

The Killer App, not

Via Cold Fury, Walter Meade's mother has died, and his elegy is worth reading.
Earlier this week, the staff posted a notice on the blog that my mother’s life was nearing its end. She breathed her last around 11 PM on September 16; since…
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Sex and honour.

What we do matters. This includes our bodies, our time, our interests. The example that Paul is talking about here is incest. You can twitter about this or that, but the pagans, who considered having boys as lovers OK, curled their toes up at that… Read More

The Old 100th.

Just because. . Read More

Our giving does not cover our hatred.

Last week I was back in my home city, and I decided to visit the Grafton Cemetery. I have not been walking through this -- one of the few quiet patches that remain in the inner city -- for many years. When I was a student I avoided it, mainly… Read More