It’s amazing how people will bend over backwards to kiss Oprah Winfrey’s behind and hang on her every word. Love for Oprah smacks of deification, except in this case, her worshippers got duped (again) along with their idol when Herman Rosenblat, author of Angel at the Fence: The True Story of a Love that Survived,… Read More »
It may have gone unnoticed by people, but today is Workers’ Party’s Democracy Day, in commemoration of the groundbreaking day on 31 October 1981 when Singaporeans voted in their first opposition member of parliament – the late J.B. Jeyaretnam – after 16 years. Incidentally, I was going through my collection of books and I realised… Read More »
百姓供养我锦衣玉食。我君临万民，就当尽心竭力，为百姓办事。你食君之禄，当忠君之事。我食民之禄，就当忠民之事。康熙，鹿鼎记，第五十回 反观新加坡的执政官员，本末颠倒，终日养尊处优，却压抑舆论，视群众如粪土，焉有造福人民之心？ Technorati Tags: 康熙 鹿鼎记 食民之禄 新加坡 本末颠倒
The 90-page radio speech by John Galt from Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” [1957] compressed into 964 words: For twelve years you’ve been asking “Who is John Galt?” This is John Galt speaking. I’m the man who’s taken away your victims and thus destroyed your world. You’ve heard it said that this is an age of… Read More »
How else would totalitarian governments or religious zealots conduct a book burning? Related post:Copy protection gone awry Technorati Tags: e-book totalitarian governments religious zealots
With information delivered via various mechanisms all fighting for our attention now, it’s no surprise that reading has become our least favourite waste of time. According to a just released Associated Press-Ipsos poll, one in four adults in the United States didn’t read any books in the past year. Well, that probably explains George Bush.… Read More »