Happy 39th Birthday, Singapore!

I’m glad that an international conference was held recently in Kenya which called for a ban on female genital mutilation. It’s been about five years since I last studied in law school, but the process is gruesome enough to linger in my mind. My views on some other topics have changed, but I am still…

Jason Kottke hits the nail on the head – everybody is biased. If you truly support freedom of speech, let’s all be open about it and don’t deny other networks the right to operate. Read more.

Here are my thoughts on Tony Blair’s speech, paragraph for paragraph. While my facts may be a little fuzzy I accept your comments, criticisms and any relevant information that would actually make my retorts sound more intelligible. Sigh. I used to think Blair was cool.

It’s been a few months since the invasion (or liberation, depending on how you see it) of Iraq. While the war isn’t officially over yet, have you ever wondered just how many people died in the September 11 attacks, which were no doubt a key influence (or excuse, depending on how you see it) for…

I feel very sorry for those who have been labelled as ‘super infectors’ by the Government and media. Not only are they ill, they run the risk of being treated as society’s scapegoats in the wake of the SARS epidemic. “Esther Mok infected the whole lot of us,” health minister Lim Hng Kiang said at…

An argument for legitimacy: If you don’t respect other nations’ territorial rights or the sovereignty of the United Nations, then neither should other countries. Which is why Turkey has seized the opportunity to engage in ‘self-defence’ against a possible Kurdish intrusion, by entering Northern Iraq themselves. Chaos begets chaos.