If [the] elections [are] filthy, let’s make it less filthy. If [the] elections [are] dominated by the elite, let’s make the elite listen to our problems. If [the] elections [are] a popularity contest, let’s demand a concrete platform from all candidates.
Mong Palatino
Allow me the luxury of reprinting one of my older posts, to introduce this [...]
I know a thing or two about losing it — and I’ve seen my share of people who are bat-shit insane — but things like these always leave me in shock: Armando Ducat Jr held almost 30 children in his day-care center hostage for close to ten hours, in protest to the current political [...]
That’s how I’d describe the state of the nation under GMA.
Congress has just doubled it’s Pork Barrel allocation — with some 3+ billion pesos being diverted from the retirement funds of government employees.
Hundred thousand peso desktop machines that my old Sempron can run circles around.
Fifty thousand peso lampposts.
An apathetic middle class.
An opportunistic upper class.
A [...]
And here I thought he was MIA. But his potshots at the military’s deployment in urban areas feels too little, too late, and aimed in the wrong direction. In a statement, Joker said that “the Armed services must restrain itself from digging into the past which was intended to be buried by past administrations”, noting [...]
At day’s end, I realized I just stayed home the whole time watching Grey’s Anatomy and playing Fallout 2. It wasn’t until I checked my cellphone that I realized that the 21st anniversary of the first People Power revolution — EDSA — had come and gone. And that’s a damn shame.
I was six when it [...]
In basketball, it’s called a crunch time situation: you’re the home team, and inbounding. Down by two after leading most of the way, and there’s only seconds left in the clock. The ref’s not on your side because of incessant flopping early in the game, and the crowd is firmly with the visiting team after [...]
This absolutely blew me away. I know I should pay more attention to who’s who and what’s what, but never – ever – in a million years would I have thought that Enrile, the architect of Martial Law, was the chairman of the Senate human rights committee. That’s beyond absurd, that’s ludicrous.
It seems Enrile had [...]
Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher who once defended faith precisely because it is absurd, would totally appreciate the actions of the current administration by GMA. In fact, the basic premise of Absurdism, that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe will ultimately fail because no such meaning exists (at least in relation [...]
What with the constant party-switching and flip-flopping of the senatoriables, it’s not a wonder why the “United” Opposition isn’t as formidable as it seemed going into the new year. Inquirer columnist Rina Jimenez-David hit the nail right on the head when she noted that the opposition’s lack of identity hurts them; while the administration slate [...]
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
~Psalms, 23:4
“Why should they be afraid to come out?”
So asks military chief, Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr., when asked about the safety of witnesses — not that there [...]
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