Reality blights

Country singer Brad Paisley's (left) song Accidental Racist features hip hop artist LL Cool J (right). - AFP

On Malaysia's position in a post-satirical world.

And so the planets aligned, the constellations dimmed, and it came to pass that there was a song called Accidental Racist. If your ears have remained unmolested, please set aside the next five or so minutes for the most affably poisonous manifesto of this or any other year. Go on, I'll wait.