A respondent on this blog calling himself Magoo, wrote in respect of my recent message for God,

“…by skybayers you really mean Christians – why don’t you have a go at Muslims?”

Magoo might equally have written “by skybayers you really mean Zulu lesbian line-dancers for all the logic in his deduction.

I’ve spent eight decades ridiculing skybayers. This has resulted in a flood of bibles sent to me over the last half century, all then forwarded on by me from “well-wisher,” to diverse friends and acquaintances with the message, “This will help you in your time of need.”

There’s a tradition in New Zealand for our trading banks to employ economists who for whatever reason, periodically talk vacuous tosh.

I’ve written about this before, citing examples going back 30 years, such as the Westpac economist in the early 1990s, wringing his hands with angst at a sharp lift in the wool price. This, he fretted, would be inflationary. Far better apparently, if the farmers remained poor.