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What is Manny Pacquiao doing?

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:00:08 +0800

Pacquiao's political aspirations and career trajectory lead to one frightening question: If he retires sometime in the next two years, how will he maintain his income?

Love letters from heaven

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:43:27 +0800

What's the most significant life lesson you have learned? Did it come to you on a silver platter, while reading a book, strolling down the streets, or while dreaming in your sleep? Sometimes, life's most important lessons come to us when we least expect them - in unexpected circumstances and people. Sometimes, we learn life's lessons through a child.

PEP bank accounts: More fun in the Philippines?

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:00:21 +0800

The original Switzerland policy on PEP bank accounts eases secrecy rules to better serve justice. How are similar deposits treated in the Philippines?

Impeachment Trial: Sharp words, contemptuous conduct

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:15:26 +0800

“I’m out of order?�You’re�out of order! This whole court is out of order!” �—Al Pacino as Atty. Kirkland before being cited in contempt in �“...And Justice for All”�(Columbia Pictures,1979)

On Civility: Without it, our society unravels

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:13:20 +0800

Today, we live in a world in which rudeness dominates our attention and overwhelms our capacity to make sense of all we hear, see, and read everyday.� And we are forced to put up with it. That is why, I admire Atty. Vitalino Aguirre’s act of covering his ears while Senator Miriam Santiago berated the prosecution panel.

Collapse of the impeachment game?

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:45:34 +0800

Are we seeing the collapse of prosecution’s proverbial house of cards? Whatever the case, the people are bored except for the ‘fiery’ lectures of Maid Miriam. Definitely, there would be no love lost if the impeachment trial would come to an end.

The Pinay in the whiteness, in the shadows

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:07:19 +0800

The image of the white model Bela Padilla emerging as she does from the darkness of the other girls on that cover is a display of white supremacist ideology at its most vicious.

The ideals of 'daang matuwid'

Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:22:45 +0800

I learned two important lessons. First, it is possible to work together to fulfill the ideals of “daang matuwid.” Second, the ideals of “daang matuwid” require wisdom to distinguish truth from lies and vice-versa.�I am still committed to the ideals of “daang matuwid.” But not PNoy’s version.�

Adult lay spirituality

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:46:17 +0800

Lay people constitute 99.95% of Christendom and the ‘ordained’ ministers hardly form one percent! Yes, the ordained ministers constitute a fraction of one percent:�0.05%!

Lyn Ching-Pascual: Cheap, cheap….

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:37:48 +0800

I am cheap. Some of my friends call me “kuripot or matipid”. But I’d rather just call myself practical with a capital P.

From where I sit:�The CJ's 'peanut butter defense'

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:38:00 +0800

The 'peanut butter defense' involves spreading the blame, such as what the Chief Justice has done.�

The nature of an impeachment trial

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:14:45 +0800

Impeachment is a dreadful process.� It inflicts a deep wound on the country.� The citizens should adopt an attitude of 'vigilant waiting;' while the representatives and the senators should adopt an attitude of 'principled political neutrality.'

Fake documents...?

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:10:13 +0800

The storm brewing in the horizon is about the attachments on the prosecutors’ pleading for subpoena of CJ Corona’s bank accounts in PS Bank. The attachments were originally alleged to have been given to Rep. Umali by a ‘small lady’ during the trial.

From where I sit: Enrile's master stroke

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:11:33 +0800

Some may call it hairsplitting but the distinction carved out by the Senate President in relation to the TRO of the Supreme Court is a master stroke of defending the Senate's turf.

On New, Gaga, Enteng

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:57:23 +0800

It is a sadness I share, but also because I feel that with art and culture, while it is easy to identify plagiarized work, i.e., whole paragraphs that are copied off an original, it’s also quite easy to see where influence and mentorship make for works from different artists that become but pieces to a big puzzle of sameness. And too there’s just this: in Third World Philippine culture, where mimicry is what makes money, are any of us original?