Think carefully before giving into the rhetoric of hate

This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed "Pale Blue Dot," is a part of the first ever "portrait" of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

THERE is a saying that's quoted so often that it's become a cliché. "May you live in interesting times."

Well, these are certainly interesting times indeed. Over the last four or five years here in Malaysia, we've seen our fair share of  "interesting times"