Meeting the 'evil one'

Which is what my son experienced. He was in the computer lab at the medical school where he is a student, and guess who should walk in, followed by a bunch of reporers? Yes, Fatty Hide, whose real name is Rodney, and who is the ACT candidate for Epsom, Auckland. Jim planned to heckle him, or at least talk, but after watching while Fatty poured his 'why you need a tax cut' poison into the ears of the IT people, and formulating the questions he would ask Fatty, he logged off, gathered his books, and ran, but he was too late. The Mr Hide of the right-wing, had gone. What would he have said?
He would have asked if Mr Hide really believes that New Zealand has a high tax rate. (It doesn't). He would have asked why any student should take ACT's policy over Labour's. Last but not least, he would have asked if Mr Rodney Hide was aware that in our family, his name is Fatty.
Still, missed opportunities... we wonder if the IT guys at Auckland University Medical school were at all impressed by ACT's tax policy.

A note on books. Overjoyed, I picked up a new Robert Holdstock from the library yesterday, only to realise that I'd already read it. I am so sad! It isn't physically possible for Robert Holdstock to write enough to satisfy me.
Recommended. The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
The Keys of Power series by Simon Brown.
The Allies of Light by Simon Green (warning - effing and blinding).

In the midst of an election campaign

So, here we are with approximately four weeks to go, and I have learned (if there was ever any doubt) that the story about the left-wing media are just nonsense. The media (or meeja, as some call them) are solidly behind the National party, and would like to see it in coalition with the lowest bidder on tax rates. I can only assume that being a "talking head" on radio or television here is very well paid indeed! Of course, they all see things from their own point of view. They have a shedload of money. They want tax cuts. So, they preach voting National/ACT. That annoys me greatly. There have been two televised debates (that I know of). The commentators on TV and radio, even on commercial radio, are all agreed that things happened a certain way on the debates, and those who didn't see them (the majority perhaps?) will just accept that everything is the way their favourite radio personality says it did.

Meanwhile, I am negotiating about dinner. What a laborious process!

Today's recommended books. Non-fiction = A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson.
Fiction = The Accuser by Lindsey Davis.