Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
dirty secret needs
The dirty little secret of journalism is that it really isn't a profession, it's a craft. All you need is a telephone and a conscience and you're all set.
yesterday years remember
I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.
loyalty mistake reality
I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq, ... The best bet is that the president doesn't actually know what's happening there, is cocooned from reality, has no one in his high-level staff able to tell him what's actually happening, and has created a culture of denial and loyalty that makes fixing mistakes or holding people accountable all but impossible.
attachment way live-free
In many ways, my attachment to human freedom was completely compatible with my right to live freely as a homosexual.
issues trying taste
What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.
honesty gay life-is
Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.
summer sweet unique
I was also reminded of one of the unique charms of NYC in the summer: vast piles of rotting garbage piled on the sidewalks, with that sweet yet nauseating smell of decomposing groceries sitting in the humid fetid air, and rancid food juices oozing over the sticky sidewalks. With my windows open to counter the stuffiness, I could occasionally catch a whiff of the stench outside. People actually like living in this chaotic, fetid monument to incompetence? Beats me.
popular-vote tiny minorities
When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.
honesty integrity thinking
I think you earn your reputation for honesty and integrity literally hour-by-hour, and taste for that matter.
couple gay law
If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.
christian long crosses
When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.
fate dark office
That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.
errors ifs
If religion is about truth, why is it so afraid of error?
insecure thinking people
I like the pluralism of modernity; it doesn't threaten me or my faith. And if one's faith is dependent on being reinforced in every aspect of other people's lives, then it is a rather insecure faith, don't you think?