Judge Brownlee Special: I Am the Law!

Excellent article on CERA's Christchurch Central City dystopian vision:

Coming up for air in the New Jerusalem

Born to Run on Empty

Martyred By Munters

We've most of us learned a bit since those innocent few months between the quake of September 2010 and its deadly aftermath. Not the vapid former game show host though, who we were dumb enough to re-elect back then. 

It's a safe bet that there are people of influence in the National Party who'll continue to see political potential in Parker's 'recognition factor', or whatever it's termed, despite his almost daily displays of self-absorbed petulance. He may be dead meat in post-quake local government, but like John Banks you can bet he'll be extended some kind of political leg-up. As John Lennon once put it, every clown has a silver lifeboat.

Pussy Putin

Nanny Goat State

The Boss Sings the Boss

In a rare public performance Earthquake Commission supremo Ian Simpson swore on a stack of PDFs that, perceptions aside, his organisation was really and truly doing its best. Quake czar Roger Sutton was sufficiently moved to renounce stadiums and convention centres and dedicate himself to ministering to widows and asthmatics. Or something like that.

Lyrics: © Bruce Springsteen, My Best Was Never Good Enough

The New Adventures of Decisive Dave

The Bling of Irrelevance

All wired up and nowhere to go.

"C'mon folks, send moi to Gansu, Wuhan, Kurashiki, Songpa-Gu, Seattle and, uh, Adelaide! Anywhere but the Eastern suburbs. . ."

A Funny Thing Happened