A New Year is always a time for rethinking the old and imagining tomorrow. Perhaps now, more so than in recent years, with myriad challenges every Filipino— every citizen of the world faces, we look towards the future, uncertain. The challenges wrought by the global financial crisis and how the world will respond to it [...]
“Putangina, ano ba ito!?!”
December 17, 2008 By 53 Comments
Newspapers mishandled the high point of Senator Mar Roxas’ speech at the recent inter-faith rally against Charter change. The senator shouted, “Putangina, ano ba ito?!?” after he enumerated the scandals involving Mrs. Arroyo and her government. Newspapers re-spelled “Putangina” as “P_____ina” and translated it to “SOB!” so the impact and import of the senator’s rhetoric [...]
Erap will be there, so what?
December 12, 2008 By 70 Comments
Today’s manifestation will be littered with the worst creatures who have ever peopled the Philippine political landscape. A couple of them? A dozen? A hundred? I maintain that the voices of the many thousands more with intentions like mine should count more than Erap. If the organizers do their job well, they will stick to [...]
Free Speech, The Bishops, And The Justice Secretary
November 28, 2008 By 75 Comments
Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales was on nationwide radio at the crack of dawn today reacting to the latest call by two influential Catholic bishops for Filipinos to manifest their rejection of the Arroyo regime on November 30, National Heroes Day Others interpret the remarks in the extreme, as agitation for a new people power revolution. [...]
Insidious Word Plays and the Rise of a Filipino Ataturk
November 21, 2008 By 12 Comments
Speaker Prospero Nograles today tried to downplay fears of an extension of Mrs. Gloria Arroyo’s term of office by telling journalists that those 168 Congressmen who signed the charter change resolution did so after he assured them that they’ll be no term extension for Arroyo and for the Congressmen. Nograles said those who signed junked [...]
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