Edge of Town

  • Ethics in an unethical world

    The preamble states: “A group of experts, drawn from different regions and disciplines  will  discuss major ethical challenges [...]

  • Idiotic interlopers

    WHEN the PM declared on Friday night that “uncivilised, undemocratic enemies would lead Malaysia to ruin”, I seriously [...]

  • Cuci cuci Malaysia

    SOME people up there — and it appears the number, sadly, is fast increasing — have mush for [...]

  • Stifling ‘sensitive issues’

    I’ve always believed that social scientists – sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and others – analyse society and make [...]

  • Dumb, getting dumber

    FIRST things first. During the many, often exasperating, years I spent in the Malaysian public university system, constantly [...]

  • Stupid is as stupid does 2

    OF the many catchphrases in that conservative, yet feel-good, 1994 Tom Hanks vehicle, ‘Forrest Gump’, perhaps the most [...]

  • The Big Picture

    For the past couple of days, together with about fifty others, I’ve been stuck in a seminar room, [...]

  • Twitter, Facebook and national security?

    IT started out with blogs, I believe, after the dismal showing of the BN in the 2008 General [...]

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