According to chedet.com – a site owned by ‘I-am-now-a-blogger’ Dr Mahathir Mohamad – it registered, on September 3, 2008, six million hits. Only four months after its debut. What the former Prime Minister says, what he thinks, still bends many ears (or pulls many eyes) – of political scientists, fans and detractors alike. So, for those who have not been following Dr Mahathir’s online entries or don’t have access to the Internet, he has ‘decided to issue [his] blog in print’. Bilingual at that. The topics – as one would expect – deal with government, the opposition, politics, race relationships. Anything topical and more found on the front pages of our local papers. For instance, the Royal Commission when it was set up to investigate the Lingam tapes; the Anti- Corruption Agency when it investigated ‘the huge bill for the maintenance of Proton Perdana official cars used by the Terengganu Government’. And, of course, the present Prime Minister, Abdullah Badawi, for several Government decisions, which he deemed as ‘flip-flops’ of the new administration. The blogs are also Dr Mahathir’s responses to criticism of him in print from public figures like Dato Seri S Samy Vellu for ‘calling [the former] racist,’ Param Cumaraswamy and Justice Dato Ian Chin. Mahathir MohamadThe title of the collection of blogs itself is a shot across the Government’s bow. Dr Mahathir alleges that ‘even if the Government does not censor what you say the media must condense their reports’. And what the latter does ‘is all very unsatisfactory’. His blogging is thus to scale the obstacles of censorship, underrepresentation and misrepresentation. He adds, ‘What I like most about the blog is that it is not censored or modified by anyone. What I write appears totally on the website.’ So ‘Blogging to Unblock’ is Dr Mahathir uncut and unmediated.