We beg to differ.
When Vice President Sara Duterte follows her father’s playbook by exploiting the word adik to score political low blows against President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., she isn’t just engaging in political theater. She is weaponizing a slur that inflicts profound psychological harm on millions of Filipinos living with undiagnosed and untreated neurodivergent conditions. The intense shame…
In a galaxy not so far away… (Scene: the planet Pailofbeans. A great hall. Two Jedi, a Master and his Padawan, are talking) Master Englund: You seem troubled my young padawan. Padawan: Yes, Master Englund. I am confused. Chaos abounds in the Republic. Our senate is ineffective and corrupt. We used to be the second…
I confess that I didn’t have many friends in my pre-school childhood. I’ve always been more of a homebody; preferring to stay at home and read books rather than get sweaty and dirty with the other kids in the neighbourhood. I do understand how it’s like to play kids’ games, though, having tried it every…
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I had just finished reading for the nth time one of the Op-Center series books by Tom Clancy. The title is Op-Center: Balance of Power. Take note that this is a fictional work, and that this is not a book review. To give a brief background, the Op-Center, or National Crisis Management Center (NCMC), is…
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