Afternoon roundup

• Colby Cosh: No other society could have created a "Balloon Boy"


• And now a push in the US for tobacco-free campuses: no smoking, not even outdoors, and they'll even ban forms of tobacco that cannot have any possible negative health effect on others:

  The ACHA’s recommendations go even further. They ban not just the use of cigarettes, cigars and other smoke-producing products but also the use of snuff, chewing tobacco and other smokeless tobacco products. The eventual goal, as described in the position statement, is “becoming or maintaining tobacco-free living and learning environments that support the achievement of personal and academic goals.”

  Lousy healthists. Comments section there decent.


• If I wanted some fancy seat covers, looks like I could just take a walk five minutes down the beach at home.


• Net migration to NZ highest in six years; cue housing price increases