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[An Open Letter] Dear Nick, I believe that it is time for Filipino Voices to take an important evolutionary step forward and abandon its policy of allowing anonymous articles to be posted on the website. By “anonymous” I mean “legally and readily unidentifiable” authorship. I think all authors posting on the site ought to be [...]
I was really hoping something like this would happen with a post on the outstanding Filipino Voices website last January entitled, The Vice Presidency As a Sword of Damocles. In what I believe to be a brilliant and laudable political move, SENATOR FRANCIS “KIKO” PANGILINAN has just announced his intention to run for the Vice [...]
Mother’s Day 2009 will always be remembered by the members of my family, including my 96 year old Mama-in-Law as the day we met the great Filipino Champion and Hero, Manny “the PacMan” Pacquiao at dinner. At the Prince Albert in the Hotel Intercontinental last Sunday evening, he ordered French wine, the Salad Scallope, Grilled [...]
Bad poetry can be so sincere. So sincere. It only looks like poetry because of the paragraphing. When the lyrics do not match the melody, and the sound clashes with the sense, versifying the odd pair is like putting curlers on a poodle. If the latter is motivated by an inner self-loathing, then the [...]
Every generation of human beings forgets the lessons of Freedom won by their ancestors. This seems to happen in fairly short order right after a people have liberated themselves from a fascist dictator and tyrant like Ferdinand Marcos. If Filipino Voices stands for anything, and inspite of any differences of opinion we may have on [...]
As bloggers we ought to be literary critics, not contestants and judges in a beauty contest. As a rapidly evolving genre of Literature, blogging has many roots and branches and forms of expression, that deserve criticism and evaluation, including strange fruits of human obsession and vanity. While the Door of Observation is slighty ajar [...]
In writing about the Subic Rape Case, I have never claimed any special authority, training or competence to do so, being mainly a useless bum, and bow with obsequiousness and embarrassment to those who do. What follows is just a personal summary of my own thoughts on the case. Clearly non-required reading for the Wisest. [...]
QUARANTINING all the big-name politicians who are going to come back from the Manny Pacquiao fight in Las Vegas may become necessary — if only to prevent SWINE-to-HUMAN transmission of an even deadlier Pinoy variant of the rampaging H1N1 influenza virus. In the crowded venues of Las Vegas, full of Americans, Mexicans, Filipinos, and travelers [...]
Here is how grim it was in Mexico City last Sunday: Soldiers in surgical masks shooed away the faithful at the cathedral, … Inside, Cardinal Norberto Rivera delivered a sermon to nearly empty pews, his pleas for divine intervention relayed over television and radio. “Grant us the prudence and serenity to act with responsibility and [...]
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