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IN THIS MORNING OF MY LIFE…
It’s a mad montage of gorgeous faces and horrific aftermaths of people’s actions. Carlos Celdran…. on a Throwback Monday find Starting with dreamer and trouble-maker Carlos Celdran, with an old Haribon...
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HER WAY: Rose Fostanes made an autobio of X-Factor
Rose Fostanes and mentor Shiri Maimon wow with a cover of Alicia Keys’ “If I Ain’t Got You” (Photo from Rose Fostanes unofficial fan page on Facebook) She’s a lesbian, middle-aged and overweight, with...
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No consolation: The SC and the Cybercrime Law
In an age where citizen participation in the fight against corruption is being solicited by governments around the world, the Philippines’ highest court has just opened the gate to those out to harass...
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American Idol: ‘Artists’ shine on Top 10 performance night
Who dares wins — if you got the talent to back up that courage. A Top Ten night on American Idol is often a make or break event. Faced with so many hummable tunes, some contestants will transform the...
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The best sportswriters on Pacman-Bradley2
“I devour great prose about sports, and will read the same piece sometimes dozens of times, in an attempt to learn more about the craft and, frankly, to be entertained. Great writing is one of the...
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FVR on media and power dynamics
Former President Fidel V. Ramos Jess Dureza shared his Advocacy MindaNOW Foundation, Inc. blog post on former President Fidel V. Ramos’ recent appearance before the Philippine Press Institute. (Dureza...
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Health, not just infra services crucial to PH disaster mitigation, recovery...
(First of Two Parts) Life and death in Palo, Leyte. Photo by Charlie Saceda for Change.org Philippines MANILA –When the stench of death and the wails of the bereaved fill the air, the advent of new...
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The Legal Wife and the attraction of tragedy
INFIDELITY happens everywhere. Photo from Hufftington Post Given a choice between a book and a soap opera, the book wins every time. Not that I’m above swooning over some hunk or smouldering anti-hero....
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THE OTHER HALF OF MOTHERS’ DAY
PHOTO from guardian.com There are some images that won’t go away. There is the silent boy marshaling a fleet of plastic cars at 4 a.m. in a cramped flat on Leon Guinto St. He abandons the toys midway...
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DADDY & Daddies
Rolando Lopez Espina: The man who gave us the gifts that last forever — music, books, writing and the thirst for knowledge. A-E-I-O-U … Sleep, my darling baby… Ili-ili, tulog anay… Abadabadabada says...
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Those VIP detention joints
The last we heard from Senator Bong Revilla’s family, following that drawn-out surrender drama, was that he needs an air cooler for his special cell – more a studio — in the Philippine National Police...
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WHY ABAD SHOULD RESIGN
Budget Secretary Butch Abad should resign — and not only because he takes attention and energies away from the trial of the plunder senators (Enrile, Estrada, Revilla and their cohorts like Napoles and...
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PDAF IS ALIVE AND WELL
Oo, Juana, kailangan mo pa ding lumuhod kay Kong. Nang nilabas ng Korte Suprema ang desisyon na nagsasabing unconstitutional ang Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF), sinabi ng gobyerno ni...
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PDAF ‘dead’? Well, gov’t has raised the zombie
It probably shouldn’t surprise us, given the government’s response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). For all it’s avowals about the death of pork, the...
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Vignettes (Intersecting lives)
HE SLIPPED in past midnight, a dark, hunched shape under a nylon parka. Perhaps it was his stillness. It took almost an hour before the night watchers at the wake noticed him, though the women of the...
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VOTE ‘NO’ TO INCLUSION OF RIGHT OF REPLY IN THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION BILL
FORKED TONGUE is about the kindest phrase I can find for statements from the House of Representatives reassuring us of the near approval of the long-delayed Freedom of Information law. The said law has...
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‘SPOILED’
Child of martyrs, stumping for her brother’s birthright to ascend the throne. Who better to untangle the skeins of skin and rot than a reluctant heir? Raised to honor legacy, the son soars, tethered by...
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WHO OWNS THAT BACKHOE? (Revisiting the Ampatuan Massacre)
Who doesn’t? Only those who did not kowtow, did not pander, did not channel funds and arms to the Ampatuans of Maguindanao. Only those who refused to keep silent as the clan harassed and burned and...
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MEDIA UNDER FIRE (For #throwbackwednesday)
Screengrab of Bulatlat.com page that featured the author’s 2004 speech when she was elected chair of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP). She served as chair until 2006 and as a...
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The Ampatuan Massacre: BECAUSE THEY COULD (Impunity in the Philippines)
“THE KILLERS WANT YOU TO FORGET. #KeepTheStoryAlive.” The joint by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) have come out with a...
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