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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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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.…
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,”…
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