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Monthly Archives: January 2006

Catherine Lim, I salute you

Friday, January 20, 2006

This, my dear friends and readers, is quite possibly the best piece of writing we will ever see from a Singaporean in our lifetime. I literally stopped breathing two paragraphs into ‘The Experiment’, the short story that Catherine Lim posits in this piece.
Not only has Catherine Lim spelt out the unarticulated fears in my mind [...]

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Why are our tax dollars funding religious fundamentalists?

Thursday, January 19, 2006

There’s nothing for me to add as others who know more than I do have written plenty about this issue.
Focus groups to help gays and lesbians understand their sexual identity are just one of the things that newly set up Liberty League plans to put in place.
The non-profit organisation has received a S$100,000 grant from [...]

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Music Industry proves Stupidity and Greed go together

Friday, January 13, 2006

Some people claim that recording industry executives are greedy crack-snorting assholes who would kill their own grandmothers if they found her downloading music. I disagree.
You see, today I realised that executives in the copyright oligopolies are all saintly people, with kind hearts and loving natures. They’re the ones who go rescuing kitty cats trapped in [...]

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