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 [...]
Halfway through “Akap”, I hear a click, and a whirr. My first roll of film just ran out — I only had 24 exposures on that one. Biting on my cigarette and trying not to fall, I reloaded as fast as I could — not easy considering the sheer number of people jostling me — [...]
Brown-nosed, that is. And that’s from the politicians kissing the collective assess of Gloria, Erap, and everyone in between.
Case in point: Mike Defensor, the once-promising former activist, Spice Boy and Quezon City representative turned Gloria apologist. In the recent Inquirer’s podcast, he gave his reasons for running in the May polls, saying that (I’m paraphrasing) [...]
Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
Law and Governance – The Spacing Guild Manual, Children of Dune
Looking at [...]
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 [...]
Stumbled upon Janette Toral’s Ituloy ang Isulong page about the recent Chiz Escudero chat over at the Yehey rooms. Recent as in I found out about it 2 hours after it ended. Nice. I am kicking myself right now. Repeatedly. With vigor.
A lot of people just normally assume I support the Sorsogon representative, which [...]
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 [...]
A just city should favour justice and the just, hate tyranny and injustice, and give them both their just desserts. ~ al-Farabi, The Dictionary of Islam vol. IV
“Justice” Secretary Raul Gonzales has long been one of my personal pet peeves – even back when he was still an Iloilo Congressman trying to evict UP from [...]
Apathy is a tyrant’s best friend. ~ Unknown
Former senators Vicente Sotto III and Tessie Aquino-Oreta have jumped ship from Senator Eduardo Angara’s predominantly anti-administration party, the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP), to the predominantly pro-administration Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), headed by businessman Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco.
You will recall (hopefully) Ms. Aquino-Oreta’s antics during Erap’s impeachment trial, [...]
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