Category: Laws of our land

  • Would you like fries with that?

    Hopefully I’m wrong, but I get the feeling that the current regime to encourage the use of less harmful fuels either isn’t working, or doesn’t exist at all. Just look at the number of CNG refueling stations on the island. The NEA’s job seems to be to just “hope to create the critical mass of…

  • You’re kidney me

    Photo by Wm Jas I read in one of our fine media outlets, I can’t remember which, that the Health Minister recently said something to the effect of monetarily motivated organ donations being a definite no no. When I searched for it, not only could I not find the quote, I read that the same…

  • Oh wait, I forget, this is Singapore

    “The Singapore School Transport Association reiterated on Saturday that making seat belts mandatory on school buses will reduce their seating capacity.” Not making them mandatory will also reduce the number of kids taking school buses because they get hurt and killed. Idiots. Wait, there’s more: ” ‘Implementation is likely to take longer. We need to…

  • Secret blog of a P65 MP: Part 5

    Dear Blog, Lam Pin Min beat me to it again. I was just about to post this up, and I log on and find that he’s beaten all of us to the blog again. Well done, colleague. Speaking of colleagues, we are all colleagues in this team, whether or not we are in Cabinet. And…

  • Terror without trousers

    Reuters’ headline for the topic of the week goes below the belt: “Singapore says militant escaped without trousers” (via I.Z. Reloaded). They’ve said that the dude’s a master of disguise, and the first suspicious character that came to mind was “Singa The Courtesy Lion”. The resemblance is uncanny. Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!