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Funny when we recall how back in April 2001, Howie Severino wrote how just “months later” in the aftermath of a second Edsa ‘revolution’, deposed President Joseph Ejercito Estrada “was grimly posing for a mug shot in Camp Crame.” Then he was shown lying on a cot inside a cell with wire mesh windows. The…
Your perceptions will not change reality, but simply color it. Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (2002) I just had what alcoholics call a moment of clarity. To think that once I could not see beyond the veil of our reality… to see those who dwell behind. I was once a…
Just when we think “civil society” has gotten up to speed with regard to the concept of regarding politics and our politicians with a critical mind, we are still arrested by the familiar sight of the lemming-like behaviour of people who merely follow self-described “heroes” and dance to the tune of those who beat the…
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If there is one thing that has been thoroughly regrettable about the apparent economic progress of the Philippines in the Aquino 2.0 era, it is that it has led the Administration to believe that what it is doing is actually working. Perhaps we should not judge them too harshly for that – after all, far…
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Like her or hate her, Kris Aquino is not going to go away and fade into oblivion anytime soon. Especially not after she was recognized for her talk show Kris TV at the USTv Students’ Choice Awards early this month. That award which she won had got her declaring that she’s happy to still be…
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It seems when things happen to be convenient for us, we are willing to lower the bar of the standards of decency we apply and the principles we presume to pontificate about. Recall how jeepneys were once regarded as “ingenious” quick solutions to what at the time was a grossly-misunderstood issue of mobility in a…
Ths real mission of the Second Aquino Presidency is in full swing as the groundwork for the ascent of the next Aquino to the presidency of the Philippines is now being lain. Family newsletter ABS-CBN News reports the almost unsurprising announcement from presidential sister Kris Aquino of her planned foray into politics… The Queen of…
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Reportedly catching eyes in Barangay Sagpon, Legazpi City, a lone poster proclaims in the Bicolano dialect: “Chiz neglected Bicol. Got P2-billion pork barrel but left the Bicolanos hungry” according to an Inquirer.net report. Amid the raging circus surrounding the fiery romance of Senator Francis ‘Chiz’ Escudero and starlet Heart Evangelista and the ire of Evangelista’s…
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