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Abstracts of essays; news; announcements; short takes.
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- Yawning Bread Sampler
- This blog carries summary abstracts of Yawning Bread essays, with space for comments.
Here too are other tidbits that are too short for the main Yawning Bread site.
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2006
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June
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- Homosexuality and the problem of scale
- The Straits Times as an educational tool
- Keeping Singapore safe for families
- Goh Chok Tong admits that GRCs are meant to skew
- How George W Bush feeds Muslim cynicism
- Religion in defence of male privilege
- Lee Hsien Loong not impressed by democracy in Aust...
- An appalling standard of English
- Stomping its way to.... where?
- Football fan-dom, part 3
- Football fan-dom, part 2
- Football fan-dom, part 1
- Courts must pay attention to the quality of justice
- Yet another exploitative story by the New Paper
- Signs of Singapore
- Interpreting the IPS voter survey
- The propaganda of lies, the propaganda of spin
- From the electorate to the internet and back
- IPS post-election forum, part 2
- IPS post-election forum, part 1
- The Mbeki Syndrome
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3 comments:
I don't understand why Ken Kwek should express disappointment about the PAP not wanting to reform itself? To do so would release its strangle hold on power, and it will not want to do that. Its in the nature of political parties to hold on to power. Just like Saddam Hussien's Bath(?) Party, minus some family killings..
The point is, the national good of the country is not served by political agency when the political system is biased towards entrenching the dominant party. That political system itself needs reform and the people of the country need to "own" that through the constitution by protecting it's citizens' rights in the face of a political agency that might become illegitimate for behaving unconstitutionally. However, because our constitution is ambigious, and our courts are not constitutionally reprehensibly, however a governemnt behaves, they can never be found to be uncnstitutional.
The above comment by Button was not deleted but moved to the blog entry Interpreting the IPS voter survey as it actually pertains to that essay.
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