by Heather Hastie | Nov 12, 2017 | Tweets
I got these tweets yesterday, but the post never got completed because I’m unwell. I’m still a bit of a wreck, but there are some good tweets and I didn’t want them to go to waste. I don’t have much to bore you with today as the ole brain...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 10, 2017 | New Zealand, Simon's Cat, Tweets
I don’t know if there are any tweets about it because I haven’t looked, but a story in the Washington Post is causing a bit of a furore here. A USian living in NZ, Ben Mack, wrote a story for them called ‘How the far right is poisoning New...
by Heather Hastie | Nov 3, 2017 | Simon's Cat, Tweets, US Politics
Whatever you think of President Trump’s policies, you can’t pretend that he’s presidential. His daily tweets alone are enough to condemn him in the behaviour stakes. He seems to have no appreciation whatsoever of the dignity of the office he holds....
by Heather Hastie | Nov 2, 2017 | Tweets
I’m sure you can all guess what sort of tweets dominate the Twitter-verse today. It is, of course, yesterday’s terror attack in Manhattan. Yes, I know this post says 2 November. But though the attack was the 31st in NY, it was the 1st in NZ. Going one more...
by Heather Hastie | Oct 27, 2017 | Tweets
One of the tweets Ann German brought to my attention today is about the judicial system in Mississippi. The situation is so outrageous that I feel I have to do more than just present the tweet. A poor, young, woman had a baby. When the baby was four months old, she...