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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License to Love
In a report by The Philippine Star, the women’s party-list group 1-Ako Babaeng Astig Aasenso (1-ABAA) proposed a law that mandates a 10-year validity on marriage licenses. Margie Tajon, spokesperson of 1-ABAA, has a dream that one day, Filipinas can free themselves from the bondage of marriage. ...
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2009 In Experiments
It was not a fun year for people who lost their homes, for the number of people who died, and the degrees of tragedy can still be quite difficult to cope with. The varying degrees of sucktitude can be summed up in a very long blog entry that summarizes feelings of hate, rage, and all around anger for...
Source: Marocharim.com
Running With The Devil
I live my life like there’s no tomorrow
And all I’ve got, I had to steal.
- Van Halen, “Running With The Devil”
Life must go on for many of us, I guess, who have developed a very disapproving perspective at Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. It’s not a personal dislike, but one...
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Pointing To Authority
A response to “Breakdown of authority” by Carmen Pedrosa.
John F. Kennedy once wrote that voters elect officials on the premise of trust and confidence: “They had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were...
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With a Most Harrowing Feeling of Disgust
Words, to the ignorant and the savage, do not hurt. Words do not make sense, much less induce feeling, among the lowest of animals. Unfortunately, for most human beings capable of articulating their feelings and making them known, words are all they have. Indeed, words are no match for the indiscriminate...
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Najananan
Rigoberto Madera, Jr., is a six-star general, is backed by God, and is number one in the surveys. Madera is the diamond general, the commander-in-chief on Earth; he is the man who will use the Philippine Presidency as a stepping stone to the Presidency of the United States, the position of secretary-general...
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Nothing Short of Chaka
Picking off from my commentary piece for Philippine Online Chronicles.
The logic of the Commission on Elections Second Division is one that comes straight off Planet Eksprokenengneng: that Ang Ladlad’s motion to be registered as a party-list group for the 2010 polls should be denied based on moral...
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South East Asia: Center of the Rice Crisis
Rice is the most staple food in this country, where in every corner of this archipelago, people are looking for rice. We never thought that there would be a rice crisis – or shortage of rice production, – but here we are now, at the center of the rice crisis. The government spends about $0.46 in every $100 of agriculture output, a level much lower than those of developing countries, which spends $0.53 in every $100, and much much lower in highly industrialized countries at $2.00 in every $100.
Now, where is the Philippines in this picture? Let’s not pin-point the Philippines as the main culprit. But yes! We do have contributed in this crisis – and we are in the forefront of the crisis. But there are many other reasons why we do have this crisis.
