COMMENT The wise warn that if a person finds himself going deeper into a hole, he should cease digging. And it would be wise for our home minister, who is now somewhere close to the earth's core, to heed this advice and put down the shovel.

Then again, the dictionary's definition of the term "wise" makes it an impossible task for even the most accomplished of writers to use the word in the same sentence with Ahmad Zahid Hamidi in a positive sense.

And his recent verbal tirade against a Malaysiakini journalist lends credence to this...