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A friend of mine expressed a theory he must have taken from someone or somewhere else, perhaps from a galaxy far, far away. He was commenting, of course, on what now seems a tsunami of Rightist fascistic…
As it was, President Rodrigo Duterte’s speech turned out to be not so bad. For showing the human side of him, it might have been brilliant. That he affirmed: there will be no demolition (of squatters) without…
After some time, you figure out how US American media will eventually beat Donald Trump: By covering him to oblivion. After some time, you get tired of it: News that repeats itself. It becomes overload. And while…
Adolph Hitler came to and held on to power this way: Identify a group of people and then say they are the cause of the country’s problems. They must therefore be destroyed; first, by establishing the fact…
Roy “Roylu” Lumagbas, native Cebuano performance artist now resides in Bolivia. He came home for a short visit and quite by coincidence did a performance at UP Cebu Fabrication Laboratory (FabLab) on June 28. His performance, “Sipilyo,”…
My friend, Larry Ypil, was dreaming of two weeks of no writing. As soon as he said this, I recalled immediately John Updike’s “A Month of Sundays.” I read this novel ages ago. Much of the story…
And so we remember how welcome rain is after being so long without it. The world was becoming so warm it became almost impossible for us to sleep unless we turned on the air-conditioning. Not that I…
I love machines. I love machines mainly because they are consistent. Because they are consistent they are easier to understand. It might be because of this that I find the more complex the machines, the lovelier they…
I wish President-Elect Rodrigo Duterte well. The last thing I wish for is that this country becomes ungovernable. It would be a waste if we went from hereon into a period of instability. And yet, the forces…
One has to keep an open mind when one looks at the politics of the moment. One has to learn to look at the situation from the Modernist’s position of disinterest. Which position requires one to look…
It is the measure of how low we have come in the political discourse when would-be leaders declare how bad they are and then accuse everyone else, especially their opponents, of being hypocrites. It would seem innocuous.…
And so it seems that the social networks have significant effect on the outcome of elections. This was the main premise of a conversation I had with friends who were, of course, more knowledgeable than I on…
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