Edge of Town
Ethics in an unethical world
| Sunday - May 20th, 2012
The preamble states: “A group of experts, drawn from different regions and disciplines will discuss major ethical challenges [...]
Idiotic interlopers
| Sunday - May 13th, 2012
WHEN the PM declared on Friday night that “uncivilised, undemocratic enemies would lead Malaysia to ruin”, I seriously [...]
Cuci cuci Malaysia
| Sunday - May 6th, 2012
SOME people up there — and it appears the number, sadly, is fast increasing — have mush for [...]
Stifling ‘sensitive issues’
| Sunday - April 22nd, 2012
I’ve always believed that social scientists – sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists and others – analyse society and make [...]
Dumb, getting dumber
| Sunday - April 15th, 2012
FIRST things first. During the many, often exasperating, years I spent in the Malaysian public university system, constantly [...]
Stupid is as stupid does 2
| Sunday - April 8th, 2012
OF the many catchphrases in that conservative, yet feel-good, 1994 Tom Hanks vehicle, ‘Forrest Gump’, perhaps the most [...]
The Big Picture
| Sunday - April 1st, 2012
For the past couple of days, together with about fifty others, I’ve been stuck in a seminar room, [...]
Twitter, Facebook and national security?
| Sunday - March 25th, 2012
IT started out with blogs, I believe, after the dismal showing of the BN in the 2008 General [...]
