Stunning visual commentary: spray-painted images in various locations within UP Diliman send a strong message.
Raul Gonzales misses the point. Again.
If you haven’t read UN rapporteur Phillip Alston’s report yet, head on over to MLQ3’s blog, he’s posted a PDF copy. Of particular interest is paragraph 12, page 5:
The Secretary of Justice, and his colleagues, were perplexed at the proposition that prosecutors, whose role is absolutely central in the Philippines justice system, had some [...]
What EDSA meant to me
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 [...]
Palace releases Melo Report
From the Philippine Daily Inquirer: seems the Melo Report does, in fact, exist, and is being distributed to the media. I for one can’t wait to read it, for all the ruckus it’s caused. Philip Alston, the United Nations rapporteur for human rights, as good as tagged the government as the primary force behind the [...]
Kierkegaard would have loved this administration
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 [...]
Why should they be afraid to come out?
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 [...]
