Fighting Talk: Living Fast
This week, Fighting Talk takes a trip to Montreal, considers illegal drugs, goes to jail, meets a girl and has a parade.
I want to add Montreal to my list of great cities, right up there with Mexico City and Berlin. I was there for an
unexpectedly extended weekend…
Get Out of Jail Free
You've heard it from a whole bargin-basement of opposition politicians, the media have - as far as I know - bought it,
and it's on the lips of bloggers who I vaguely recall were once not National hacks.
The private running of Auckland Central Remand Prison, they say, was better and cheaper than facilities run by the
Public Prison Service. Thus, the fact that the Government has ended it is bad.
So I’m Kelly and I’m new here. Hamish said that if I write on Fighting Talk I will get more cred and more sex, which
makes him a liar and me a sucker. I realised yesterday that I’ve been a resident of Wellington for over six months now,
a half-year in which I’ve achieved remarkably little of any merit. I did meet the mayor the other day, but I was too
star-struck to say what I really wanted…
I must admit, I'm a little bothered by Nandor's proposed half-step to reform New Zealand's cannabis laws. This time he
baulks at advocating full decriminalisation for cannabis; instead he proposes that users merely receive fines without
accompanying criminal conviction. I can only imagine this uncharacteristically weak proposal is in order to present a
more 'moderate' face to mainstream voters, from whom the Greens would dearly love to glean a few more votes…
ENDS