TR EMERITUS

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean." - This is a good epithet. Typically the names of Gandhi or Nelson Mandela or Mother Teresa come up when one thinks of... 

The dramatic advent of the first democratic government in Singapore was by a landslide victory in the general election in 1959 by the People's Action Party (PAP) led by the dynamic leader Lee Kuan Yew. This brought a flush of lofty euphoria to the people of Singapore as it ended a long reign of British colonial rule. The PAP... 

There is an old saying among the 1% that goes something like this: "If you can't dazzle them with statistics, baffle them with bullshit." ~ Here are some of my favorite sources of “fake news” that shaped my distorted perceptional lens of our current condition. Just call me delusional. On Australia's isolated Cape York Peninsula,...