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Lacking intelligence or common sense” is how the dictionary defines it. “Stupid” is a funny word. And funniest when used in the act of name-calling; such as in a recent column by Rigoberto Tiglao for a national…
To find America one has to search for it. A Filipino visitor, born and raised in the Philippines, who comes here only for a short visit will not find it the same way the immigrant Filipino finds…
From time to time, he has a problem sleeping. It does not bother him as much as it used to. He has grown used to it, grown used to its consequences for the next day — which,…
The time he tried it was all he needed to say: “Oh yeah, I tried that once. The mushroom is, of course, a substance. But does eating it qualify as substance abuse? What else do you do…
The whole point of terror is to change us. . . . To change the way we look at ourselves, and even as this happens, to change the way we look at the world. We fear the…
Mining today to build tomorrow seems immediately like sound logic. Building the future will always require the sacrifice of something. But we should qualify the true meanings of the words “sacrifice” and “future” in the light of…
And he could be you, the drug addict fated to die tonight. You might be high on it or getting ready to get your fix. If the latter, you would be feeling drowsy, drowsy as in the…
For the past year or so, we have been led by leaders who came to power on the back of the rightist, populist and fascist discourse. In many places all over the world, this particular discourse…
Just for today, allow me a bit of self-indulgence. I am told that not everybody understands my writing, which is a somewhat polite way of saying, “Nobody understands it.” The statement does not bother me. The fact…
This is all about feeding Mr. Toise. We say it like the French — Mister Twa, short for Tortoise, Mr. Tortoise. But he may well be a she. She needs to be a few more years older…
We are scattered all over the world now, friends from an earlier time. Once, we were rooted here; together, inside this particular corner of the planet, this city, this particular street, these rooms, this house, that table.…
Pagkabanhaw” is Binisaya for resurrection. The fact we have such a word means the Bisaya have a native concept of it. We did not learn or borrow the word from foreign imperialists. Pagkabanhaw is a pre-Western concept…
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