Category: Laws of our land
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Change the message
On the Feb 28 episode of her show, store Ellen DeGeneris talked about the recent murder of an openly gay 8th grader (15 years old) by a fellow 8th grader he had asked to be his valentine: “If the message is that being gay is so horrible that you can be killed for it, unhealthy…
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All stops pulled out in search for fugitive
View Larger Map Don’t speculate how he escaped, the authorities say ‘all stops are being pulled’ to rein in accused terror mastermind Mas Selamat Kastari. Says Channelnewsasia: “With the tight security presence, Singaporeans are generally confident this crisis will soon be resolved.” Add to that, “and the jams at the causeway will soon clear up”.…
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Did the earth move for you?
“Richter Scale of Love” photo by ___Q___ Over the past year there’ve been more tremors felt in Singapore than I remember in the last decade. And there might be an explanation for this, according to a member of the Israeli Knesset. Shlomo Benizri MK, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, claims that earthquakes are…
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A Bird Park of biblical promotions
I was walking Mac this afternoon on the pavement outside our apartment blocks, and at the bus stop I saw a poster for the Jurong Bird Park with a verse from Isaiah – “They will soar on wings like eagles”, and I thought it slightly disturbing that in a secular and multi-racial city state, there’d…
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An open sandwich to the Prime Minister
If anything the latter half of this year has been remarkable for, it’s been the “open debate” we’ve heard about but rarely experienced. There’s been more “open letters” lately than I care to remember. Even the doyenne of Singapore Lit has set up a website for such a purpose. Sure, prices are going up, and…