Madrigal: The Non-Contender
Jamby Madrigal, for many voters, is the statistical pariah of the 2010 Presidential elections: the ultimate in un-winnability. Madrigal is the outlier in a normal curve on a very different graph, so to speak. Every other candidate can pull out track record: hers being that of advocacy for women,...
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iBlog 6: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit
Mark your calendars. iBlog 6: The 6th Philippine Blogging Summit, is on April 16 and April 17, 2010, at the Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law, UP Diliman, Quezon City.
It’s going to be a two-day affair: the first day is for business people and entrepreneurs who want to maximize blogging for...
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Jejemon Series 1: Jejemon Fashion
Eclecticism and syncretism have long been used to explain fashion. Alfred Kroeber, for example, writes that changes in fashion are not the product of a single mind, but that the end result of a fashionable trend is the result of the contributions of human beings through a multitude of perspectives. ...
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The Rime of the Ancient Waterboy
Water, water, everywhere.
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
I sometimes imagine the journey of the Mariner and his crew taking place not in the troubled high seas, but in an ocean made entirely from...
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Fin de Siècle
The recent Pulse Asia surveys show that Manny Villar is leading over Noynoy Aquino among the many poor, and two age brackets: 25-34, and 35-44.
Over at Blogwatch, Cocoy makes a rather interesting observation regarding this development:
What I think this survey tells us is that right here, right now,...
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A Discriminating Taste in Toilets
My friend Sharlyne wrote a very interesting article today on public toilets for LGBTs. In a GMA report, the Alyansa ng Media at Showbiz, Inc., led by Leo Martinez, proposes “gay toilets;” that “gay male” and “gay female” toilets may be built in government offices...
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Malice in Wonderland
In a report by GMANews.TV, former DSWD (now DOH) Secretary Esperanza Cabral, through the National Bureau of Investigation, has filed a libel suit against a blogger named “Ella,” who exposed some irregularities and alleged hoarding activities of the DSWD, at the height of the Typhoon Ondoy...
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Sa Lilim ng Anino ng Rebulto ni Señor Felipe II, Rey de España
Ito ang nakita ko sa Intramuros. Ang rebulto ng dating hari ng Espanya – si Señor Felipe II – at ang mag-inang nagpapahinga sa lilim nito. Hindi sa duyan, hindi sa kama, at hindi sa upuan, kundi sa karton na inilatag lamang sa plaza. Hindi sila humingi ng abuloy o limos sa amin; kuntento...
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Villar: The Manager
* – First in a series of posts about the Presidentiables
Many of us are familiar with the Autobiography of Manuel B. Villar: born poor, sold fish in the market, and climbed up his way from the slums to the Senate. It’s an autobiography not written in books, but in TV commercials and PR...
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Happy Birthday, Wikipedia
Wikipedia turns nine years old today; it first went online on January 15, 2001.
Yes, our favorite free online encyclopedia shares the same birthday as Butch Dalisay, Mario Van Peebles, Martin Luther King, Jr., Shane McMahon, and Molière. Wikipedia shares the same anniversary day as Coca-Cola, basketball,...
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