AND I SHOULD HAVE SAID

That Simon Wilson's story does come to terms with what is offered and does take issue with some places where it is clearly a bad fit and - best of all - suggests some alternatives.

STRANGE FRIENDS

In Simon Wilson's much maligned (by some bloggers at least) I Love Super City story in Metro he quotes the arch bogeyman Rodney Hide "This is governance" says the man in the Yellow Jacket "its the way democracy works that we're talking about here. It's important to have the proper process." 

Right on Rodney. 

But are we talking about process at all - not many - I am trying to, but people, it is like pushing the proverbial lump of pooh uphill. 

Saying no is atavistic in Auckland. 

We do it in our sleep.  

But this is no time for saying Not it is a time for saying What. 

It is going to happen. 

We have just over a week to say what could happen. 

Click on the right and see my version. 

Join in if you agree or write your own version of a rational and democratic Auckland. 

But don't stand around scratching your bum and saying No.

CONSPIRACY OR WHAT

Conspiracy theorists should be having a field day about this flurry of suppressed evidence in the David Bain trial. Fair minded folk might think what is the point of it. The trial is over. The not guilty verdicts delivered. Skeptics might think actually it is not over yet. Should David Bain seek compensation - and one might think he should - his case will be subject to a scrutiny of a different kind with a different threshold. Could all this stuff be intended to muddy those waters or is it just this dismal day?  

A CHALLENGE TO THE BLOGPOTS AND PISSBLOGS OF THE BLOGARCHY

It is two weeks until submissions close on the shape of the new Auckland City and what are the Public Adressers, the Kiwi Bloggers the Whale Oilers and the No Right Turners and the Pundits adding to the debate - nothing - they coast along with their self satisfied political pandering and the sniggering at the evil deeds of the politically worthless while the chance to inform their readers about what is proposed what might be proposed and what should be proposed for the governance of one third of the country slips by. Is our blogosphere so truly contemptible and off message?