Stephanie Rodgers

Feminist, leftie, green māmā from Te Whanganui-a-Tara

Category: Government

  • Obama is not a “lame duck” President

    This post was inspired by a comment on the State of the Union post at The Standard, but it’s something I’ve been annoyed by for a while: the current framing…

  • You haven’t really lived until you’ve pulled Mach 3

    A fascinating read on the US military industrial complex – particularly the Air Force’s focus on planes which don’t actually get the job done, but do return unbelievable profits to…

  • Who texts the PM?

    An OIA request for information about the Prime Minister deleting his text messages is back (hat-tip to @eey0re) and Wayne Eagleson has found another wafer-thin excuse for the wholesale deletion…

  • Midweek lunch break

    In honour of Mitt Romney possibly/probably/definitely running for President again, a flashback to the 2012 US elections care of Bad Lip Reading.   (Just because some people really don’t get…

  • Connecting the dots on satire, Parliament, and dirty politics

    Danyl McLauchlan has a great suggestion for NZ politicians who really want to show their dedication to freedom of speech and the press in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo…