deliver us from evil...

Midwives
natural therapy
wishy washy bullshit from jumped up kiwi manques who cant believe they never had enough smarts to get to medical school and now they want to prove that they are just as smart as any doctor and think it a good idea to debase the whole concept of medical science just for good measure.
Any fool can ask more questions than a wise man can answer.
The Medical council must tighten the ship against the typical kiwi propensity for humbling professionals and demanding equal status for the ignorati.
dig?

Derek Freeman
Big congrats to Fairfax Pacific Correspondent Michael Field who has done some reading and has brought Freeman to book in this weeks Sunday Star Times.
The worst thing about freeman was the media leaped to support his pronouncements like it was just another good story but it was more than that.
he drove a stake into the heart of Anthropology and allowed the practitioners to abandon reality for the nonsense of Claude Levi-Strauss.
Levi-Strauss was just another french obscurantist who muddied the waters instead of clearing them
When I was green behind the ears I began to read him but halfway through the first chapter his animus began oozing off the pages and I realised I had an overwhelming dislike for the man qua man.
There was nothing about him I wanted to know.
He was cheap and nasty.
Just like Karl Popper.
proposing all sorts of dyadic bi polar dichotomies to confound and confuse when the the real was what was needed.
no little puzzles or schematics but an exposition that was available to all.
he was both raw and cooked and he turned into a half baked turnip.
Now is the time for Margaret Mead to be reintroduced.
so what if it is no longer possible to do the field studies that were possible when she started work but that is no reason to deny that any she did had no value at all because wah wa wah.

and on Saturday morning in Featherston I got some Rolling Stone Mags.
Didn't look like any one else was reading them!!!!!
One had a list of the 100 top guitarists of all time.
Some of the selection panel didn't seem to have much history but c'est la vie.
for what its worth cut to the chase and here is my list of the:
Top 10 Guitarists of all Time:
Keith Richards
Jimi Hendrix
Mike Bloomfield
Duane Allman
Muddy Waters
Elmore James
Chuck Berry
Eric Clapton
Jimmy Page
Jeff Beck

beat that!

Carterton
People round here say Lance Hopping was good bloke and I have no reason to doubt that.
The balloon crash was a result of some inexplicable event that nobody will ever know.
The trickle release of selected facts is not good for anyone either except the opionators on the net and we should just wait for the official report and then put it behind us and show some forgiveness and tolerance.

WW1 News
this am
a fokker triplane and a Nieport and a Cessna 185 flew over my house.
must be  a beacon in the chimney.
hahaha

Georges Guynemer

Masterton Park Lake.

Good item by Masterton archivist Gareth Winter on the formation of the park and the lake in the Wairarapa Times Age on Saturday.

I am not sure if I credit his exact story of events leading to the sealing of the lake but it is time the lake was restored to its former glory.

Otherwise it wil lbe necessary to import some water buffalo's and hippopotami and let them wallow in the mud all day.

Just got back from Masterton.

the first half of this post was done there but then I was flanked by two people both of whom had runny noses and were sneezing.

The staff should be empowered to ask people with obvious signs of a cold to vacate the building and come back another day.