 The West is the Best
by Anton Kelly
The second anniversary of September 11 passed quietly and I'm glad I didn't see any gratuitous replays of the events of that awful day. (Read more...)
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 The Nicotine-Nazis Are Coming
by Anton Kelly
Smokers get abused again. Anton Kelly objects. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
February 12, 2003 |
Go The Black Boat
by Anton Kelly
On the first day of the upcoming SOLO conference, the America's Cup begins. I can't wait. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
February 5, 2003 |
My Tribute to the Columbia
by Anton Kelly
I have always been fascinated by space and space flight. Pictures of galaxies and rockets covered my bedroom walls when I was a child, and I have followed all of man's space programs with great interest. I looked on in envy when a few years ago a wealthy American paid twenty million dollars to spend a few days in orbit with the Russians. One of my life goals is to travel to Cape Canaveral to witness a shuttle launch. (Read more...)
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 Lessons from Miss Ives
by Anton Kelly
She was a girl in her late twenties, whose quietly harmonious, impenetrable face had a quality matching the best-designed office equipment; she was one of his most ruthlessly competent employees; her manner of performing her duties suggested the kind of rational cleanliness that would consider any element of emotion, while at work, as an unpardonable immorality. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
September 11, 2002 |
I Did Not Fail Him
by Anton Kelly
Six New Zealand teenagers have just been convicted of killing 40-year-old pizza-delivery man Michael Choy in South Auckland last year. The oldest killer was seventeen at the time; the youngest, BJ Kurariki, was just twelve. (Read more...)
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On Paid Parental Leave
by Anton Kelly
The due date of our impending baby (arriving any day now!) means my wife and I qualify for the newly introduced twelve weeks' paid parental leave, courtesy of the New Zealand taxpayer. (Read more...)
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In Anticipation of Max or Shaedyn
by Anton Kelly
I believe it is up to me how I raise my child, not the government. I will do a better job. (Read more...)
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Fat Foes
by Anton Kelly
The war against tobacco has almost been won and busybodies are turning their attention to the rising prevalence of obesity. (Read more...)
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Wishing Won't Fill the Fuel Tank
by Anton Kelly
They were convinced that only prayer and natural herbal remedies would help Caleb, and they took him from hospital because they believe conventional medicine is "Satan’s way". (Read more...)
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 Forty-Two Will Do
by Anton Kelly
Many mystics believe the nonsense that they do because they think that life, the universe and everything is so fantastic and complex that it must have been designed and created by a supremely complex and intelligent being. (Read more...)
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