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Category: Personal

  • Mutations

    You can ignore the technicality and legality of it. You can forget “taste”, propriety — heck, even morality. Because frankly, one must only understand the meaning of sensitivity to know that Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s bid for that congressional seat in Pampanga’s second district spits at our faces — the legacy of EDSA 1 — the honor…

  • Justice for Maguindanao Massacre victims

    Last Updated: December 5, 2009 – Saturday An international media watchdog considers Monday’s carnage the worst of its kind as it “appears to be the single deadliest event for the press since 1992, when CPJ began keeping detailed records on journalist deaths“. It has earned us the shameful title of being the “most dangerous place…

  • So is the glass half-empty? Or half-full?

    Image by gmaresign via Flickr The magnificently boring results of another survey from Pulse Asia just came out. It did nothing but make official what each and every one of us here in this country knew all along in eight years or so. ABS-CBN writes the headline: 1 out of 2 disapprove of PGMA’s performance…

  • Going for tried, getting tired

    At first glance I misread Amando Doronila’s article in today’s Philippine Daily Inquirer. I thought I read “With Edu, admin turns to tried formula”. A quick closer look revealed that the word in question is actually tired, not tried. Maybe it’s my age finally catching up with me. Better schedule an appointment with EO Optical.…

  • It's Gibo-Edu in 2010 for Lakas-Kampi CMD

    In an obvious act of desperation and lack of choices, Gibo has finally found his running mate for the 2010 elections. Possibly for reasons apparent to all, he has chosen actor and former OMB (Optical Media Board) Chairman Edu Manzano to be his vice-president. Although there have been reports that Gibo’s popularity in surveys has…