Missing the sunlight

Raymund Fernandez 01/17/2017

After too many days of incessant rain, one misses the sunlight. Though rain, of itself, is also quite nice. But the grayness can be quite depressing. This, and things like the mud that creeps over floors, the…

Thanks, Cebu media

Raymund Fernandez 01/11/2017

Kinutil takes this opportunity to thank Cebu media for its help in announcing to the public the book “Kamingaw: An Impressionist Portrait of the Bisaya Painter Martino A. Abellana.” This book is published by the University of…

Two thousand seventeen

Raymund Fernandez 01/03/2017

It was absolutely reflective of the times that this writer was drunk, hungover and otherwise mostly stayed in bed from the evening of the 30th of last year’s December until New Year’s Day, 2017. He was up…

Kaluoy

Raymund Fernandez 12/27/2016

In this season of good cheer, it might be useful for us to remember the word empathy. Its dictionary meaning is “the ability to understand and share in the feelings of others.” The word is a bit…

Homeless

Raymund Fernandez 12/20/2016

This column endorses the land swap deal between City Hall and the Cebu Provincial Capitol. This is a plan that has been too long in coming. It will give government greater leverage to solve the problem of…

Police state

Raymund Fernandez 12/13/2016

A friend was espousing the relative benefits of having a police state here in our country. He did not want to say it outright, obviously out of deference to what he guessed were my thoughts on the…

Crossing the Rubicon

Raymund Fernandez 12/06/2016

The Rubicon, if you must know, is a small shallow river — a creek to some writers — North of Italy. It marks the border between Italy proper and its northeastern province of Cisalpine Gaul. In 49…

The dream of a benevolent dictator

Raymund Fernandez 11/29/2016

There is a reason why a superhero like Batman or Spiderman don’t run for president. They know: “With great power comes great responsibility.” And political offices like the presidency of any country, even ours, would simply not…

Bright sunny day

Raymund Fernandez 11/22/2016

Quite by surprise I woke up to a bright sunny day, quite unexpected after days of rain showers. The times being what they are, I could not help but read this for a sign of better days…

With the rest of the garbage

Raymund Fernandez 11/15/2016

Yesterday, we “buried” Marcos at the Lubnganan sa mga Basura, better known as the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill, so to speak, together with the rest of the garbage. The sponsors of this mass action invited us to make…

The courts

Raymund Fernandez 11/08/2016

Except for this tragic decision to bury Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, it seems rarely now that the courts are called upon to determine the contentious truth of things important. And that’s a big shame…

Predictability

Raymund Fernandez 11/01/2016

We all know how intelligence is a predictive skill: And so too moral judgment. The two are not irrevocably married. Only for some are they faithful lovers. But lovers or not, intelligence and moral judgment are both…

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