The great anti-US rhetoric

Raymund Fernandez 10/25/2016

To be sure, China does not desire to go to war with the United States of America. But they would not mind having some leader of a vassal state mouthing the great anti-US rhetoric if only to…

Dylan, Tuesday morning

Raymund Fernandez 10/18/2016

I am wondering if I should make myself another cup of coffee. There will be consequence. There always is. But I am also wondering what to write about. Given the trajectories of the current world, there is…

The rank and file

Raymund Fernandez 10/11/2016

Presidents come and go. The government will still be there and it will be moving on the basis of work done mostly by people going by a somewhat in-distinguishing term — the rank and file. They are…

Peace and order vs rule of law

Raymund Fernandez 10/04/2016

One learns many lessons working over many years as a teacher in a state university. This one I learned from a fellow teacher: “Presidents, Chancellors, Deans, Chairpeople, come and go. After they go, we will still be…

The post-colonial Narcisa/o

Raymund Fernandez 09/27/2016

Kinutil More than 400 years of colonialism cannot help but leave a mark. Our politics has become one of self-loathing and self-flagellation. The Filipino is this and that. And that is why we must do to us…

Roxas Resign!

Raymund Fernandez 09/20/2016

Kinutil If Mar Roxas won the presidency, media would certainly have been just as critical of him as they are of the current president. Likely, even more. The claim that media is critical of the sitting president…

Limp dick

Raymund Fernandez 09/13/2016

I am looking right now at the label on a pack of cigarettes. I am looking particularly at the health warning. An ugly hand mimics legs. In between the index and middle fingers is a half burned…

Sir Carmelo Tamayo, 2016

Raymund Fernandez 09/06/2016

Prof. Carmelo Tamayo passed away last week at the ripe age of 89. He was buried last Sunday. Prof. Tamayo was one of the first members of the faculty of the Fine Arts Program of the University…

Metahuman

Raymund Fernandez 08/30/2016

Francisco Goya’s immortal print, “El sueño de la razón produce monstruos,” would — in the language of today’s young — translate to: “The sleep of reason produces metahumans.” Metahumans are an odd mixture of disparate, incongruous, and…

Explaining these to my son

Raymund Fernandez 08/23/2016

My youngest son is only 12 years old. And yet at his age he has to grapple with the turmoils of his society in a way much more stark than even I have to deal with it.…

The war on truth

Raymund Fernandez 08/16/2016

Before all else, there was chaos. Before titans, demigods, before even the Gods themselves. Chaos was already there. The course of life, and civilization, is therefore the travel of man away from chaos to order. These are…

Funeral for an era

Raymund Fernandez 08/09/2016

It took Ferdinand Marcos only 30 years to come back to power in the Philippines after his fall in 1986. His burial at Libingan ng mga Bayani marks his posthumous and his family’s undeniable return to power.…

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