Somebody please tell me if I am sounding like someone who just landed here after a long trip from Mars, but am I the only one who sees the quaint oxymoronism in what The Dingman says in the following excerpt from his recent post? But this is not a sports post but rather a note [...]
Manny Pacquiao’s Homecoming And The December 12 Inter-Faith Rally
December 7, 2008 By 44 Comments
The betting odds in Las Vegas were tipped against him as Manny Pacquiao strode up the ring today but whatever were Oscar Dela Hoya’s touted advantages vanished soon after opening bell. The ‘National Fist’ (Ang Pambansang Kamao) gave Mexican ‘Golden Boy’ Dela Hoya more than he bargained for and quite possibly wrote the initial chapter [...]
Pacquiao v. De la Hoya
December 6, 2008 By 26 Comments
What The Pacquiao-Dela Hoya Fight Is All About
November 29, 2008 By 13 Comments
Friends have been asking me who I’d pick in the upcoming Manny Pacquiao-Oscar Dela Hoya fight. “Are you kidding me?” has been my standard retort. Then I ask, “which do want us to bet on, the first, second or third encounter between the two best pound-for-pound boxers in recent years?” I say this because in [...]
Young, dumb, and fulla cum
October 24, 2008 By 21 Comments
This giggly fascination with “heresy” in FV kind of reminds me of how my friends and I as a bunch of young-dumb-and-fulla-cum 15-year-olds, used to sneak in a few smokes in the men’s room at our local high school. That feeling of doing something that puts you squarely on the wrong side of the law, [...]
Five star prisons, Raul Gonzalez, Thomas More and justice
October 11, 2008 By 4 Comments
Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez fits the Thomas Cromwell character like a glove in Robert Bolt’s “A Man for all Seasons”. I presume Mr Gonzales knows who that play (made into an Oscar winning movie) is all about. After all the play is about the patron saint of his profession, much admired by his Royal and Pontifical alma mater. Anyway [...]
Are We At The Doorstep of Oil Glory?
October 10, 2008 By 53 Comments
Somebody pinch me, please. The reports, and images, are just too exciting that one has to remind himself that he is in in the Philippines and not in some enclave in the Middle East or even the North Sea where gargantuan oil reserves have secured the people’s future of plenty and posterity. But dream we [...]
“Sigurado na, na tatakbo ako”
September 1, 2008 By 8 Comments
And so goes another major milestone in the lead up to the 2010 Philippine Presidential Elections. Manny Pacquiao — the next big Pinoy celebrity to make a bid for an office in the Philippine Government. Considering that this guy once famously lodged no less than 20 applications for exemption to a firearms prohibition back in [...]
Surrealpolitik
July 29, 2008 By 4 Comments
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