It’s official. For those of you living in Selangor, please be aware that your previous state assembly persons have basically bled you dry of RM 27million (or so) allocated to the state assembly. Yes, that’s Khir Toyo and gang for you. Let me say it again: RM 27 fucking million. An ...Continue
I don’t believe you’ll need to think very hard about the implications of the Lingam report. This is just further dismantling of the Mahathir regime and one, I think, that is done with relish and not without a smidgen of desperation. In the light of recent moves by Mahathir to re-establish old ties and bona fides within the UMNO ...Continue
I was browsing through bookforum.com when I lighted on an interesting article featuring Henri Lefebvre. No, I don’t know who he is, but Daniel Miller’s written a compelling piece describing Lefebvre’s ideas, and in particular, his involvement in the May 1968 revolt agains ...Continue
I wouldn’t want to be Burmese today.
If I were Burmese, alive and standing amidst the bodies floating on still water, like the bodies of buddhist monks face down in dark streams, how would I feel. I don’t know. I wouldn’t be sane, by then. I would be a gibbering mess, laughing and trying to claw my eyes out.
I won ...Continue