3 November, 2009

I flicked on the TV for a few minutes last night, just long enough to watch an article on TV3’s 60 Minutes about the “war” between cyclists and motorists. It was a surprisingly disgusting piece of journalism and seemed very narrow and one-sided. It is reassuring that a number of other people felt the same and the comments on the TV3 web site seem to demonstrate a lot more balance than the article did. It’s a shame we feel the need to constantly polarise things like that in a nation this small. I am waiting for the day that they run an article like that, follow it with something about obesity and the drop in life expectancy and then look at how our elderly (presumably the baby boomers now) are expected to live a long happy life and be a drain on society. Is it possible the media do not read their own writings?

It was a bit disturbing last night to discover the young folks screaming up and down the road at 2am in the morning were actually very young. One looked to be no older than about 14. Now I’m not one to judge people based on their circumstances but man, we get some plonkers in this area. Why are we letting our kids run riot at night? Because if we’re like me, we’re tired and simply don’t care that much. Next time I’ll call noise control and see if that gets them back home to bed.  I wonder if they made it to school this morning. I also have to wonder why they are always called things like “Janelle, Dwayne, Hayden” … and whoever “Steve” was, apparently it was all his fault.

Anywho … buy my book. Make me rich so I can retire from this life of hardship and sit in my back yard.