Does this inspire confidence? I think not. I am mildly chuffed, however, that my laptop’s irDA port happily and automagically communicates with my cellphone. Easier than Bluetooth, if nowhere near as sexy.
I had, incidentally, been feeling a bit sorry for Don Brash and the spotlight on his cheating ways; the Dominion, of all places, dispelled that for me by publishing a selection of his choicest quotes lambasting Helen Clark’s marriage, religious convictions, and such. If you don’t like your private life in the papers, a wise start might be not to lambast the private life of others (an equally wise choice might be not to screw around on your wife).
Of course, today the Dom is back to the position to which it is more accustomed, with the political columnist noting “voters are tired of Labour’s personal attacks.” Hmm. I hadn’t noticed it being Labour MPs calling their opposite numbers child molesters recently.
The thing that has perhaps irritated me most in this affair, other than the insistence of random talking heads that the involvement of a small group of religious extremists spending orders of magnitude more than any other group on trying to influence the election by stealth, has been the idea that this is somehow unprecedented in New Zealand’s political history. It takes only the most meager intellect to come up with the Moyle affair; there is no shortage of reprehensible muckraking in New Zealand politics.
