I hardly review a blog owned by a PNS (Pegawai Negeri Sipil) - an Indonesian civil servant.  Most of the times I wrote very disgenerous articles–both in my English or in Bahasa Indonesia blogs– to them, the bureaucrats as a people or as an institution. See for example this post: ...

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the luddite* in pakistan... Taliban cleric Faqir Mohammed is tall, thin, very serious and very religious. His eyes are hard and he speaks slowly. He never smiles. And when you hear what he has to say, you won’t be smiling either. "If we get hold of nuclear weapons – which we hope to get very soo...