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3 Strikes - A third dumb idea from the Supercity/travel expenses guy	At 23, is Rafa's career all but over?	Would you want to know your baby's genetic flaws?

	Shaping Up To Fight Will the new White Paper on Defence raise the chances of us getting involved in other peoples’ wars? by Gordon Campbell
	The Real Three Strikes: Mad, Sad and Bad Using common sense would be a welcome change for our criminal justice system … by Denis O’Reilly
	Living by the Code The mixed blessings of commercial gene testing by Cushla McKinney
	Decline and Fall Hebron’s spiral of despair by Prakaj Roy
	Classics: The Borrowers (1952) by Mary Norton Small people with big problems by Gordon Campbell
	From The Hood: Think Crimes Lyndon Hood installs a crime-prevention camera in the Justice Minister’s mind. by Lyndon Hood
	Talking Sport: Rafa in the Twilight Zone Why is tennis treating its top players as utterly disposable? by Lamont Russell
	Left Coasting : Plug and play democracy Californian voters learn to live with constitutional gridlock by Rosalea Barker
	The Complicatist: From Animal Collective to Bobby Conn Indie rock is for wimps, and we’re OK about that by Gordon Campbell
	The Jesus Cringe The etiquette of fessing up to being Christian + a reply to reader feedback from the author by James Robinson
	Welcome to the Jobless Recovery GDP growth without jobs is no recovery at all by Gordon Campbell
	Cartoon Alley Reviews, commentary and comics from local artists by Werewolf
	* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 7, DECEMBER 2009 * * * * * The second December edition of Werewolf published on December 23st, 2009 by Werewolf

Enter the ‘Wolf

Hi and welcome to the latest edition of Werewolf, which is coming out at a very confusing time for lycanthropes. Two full moons in January and March, and none at all in February. That's two blue moons and one black moon in a row. No wonder there's some weird shit happening out there. This month's cover story offers the first in a two part series about the new Defence White Paper due at the end of March, which will unveil a new strategic and operational framework for our armed forces. Can we trust a National Party that would have gotten us into the illegal war in Iraq, to carry out this process properly? Probably not.
Other highlights from this issue include Denis O'Reilly's response to the government's Three Strikes sentencing policy for violent offenders, and Cushla McKinney's analysis of the current state of commercial gene testing, and the ethical questions that it raises. Prakaj Roy, a recent visitor to the Middle East, reports on the ongoing troubles in Hebron and traces the historical background to them. This month's music column considers the pros and cons of the indie rock wimp factor, while Mary Norton's 1952 book The Borrowers is featured in this month's classic children's books column. In the sports column, Lamont Russell looks at the rising injury toll in professional tennis evident at the 2010 Australian Open, and satirist Lyndon Hood enters into the troubled mind of alleged "Justice" Minister, Simon Power. In Cartoon Alley, Tim Bollinger and Leo Hupert provide a range of reviews and responses to some of the new and favourite comics that they have encountered over the past month. Finally, because a lot of people were away over January, we're carrying over two items from our Christmas/New Year mini-issue - namely, the Jesus Cringe story by James Robinson, and a story about the Jobless Recovery.
Werewolf exists as a thank you’ to Scoop.co.nz supporters, and to provide a fresh outlet for writers and cartoonists. If you’d like to be part of it, email me at gordon@werewolf.co.nz. and we can talk about it. Thanks as always to David McLellan for helping to edit and post this issue.
Cheers,  Gordon Campbell   Werewolf/Scoop

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Shaping Up To Fight

The Real Three Strikes: Mad, Sad and Bad

Living by the Code

Decline and Fall

Classics: The Borrowers (1952) by Mary Norton

From The Hood: Think Crimes

Talking Sport: Rafa in the Twilight Zone

Left Coasting : Plug and play democracy

The Complicatist: From Animal Collective to Bobby Conn

The Jesus Cringe

Welcome to the Jobless Recovery

Cartoon Alley

* * * * * WEREWOLF ISSUE 7, DECEMBER 2009 * * * * *

Enter the ‘Wolf

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