Monthly Archives: September 2004

ecriminalize

In ABS-CBNNEWS.COM, Today Newspaper comes out with an elaboration and in support of some of the points raised in my Monday column. However, in A Sassy Lawyer in Philippine Suburbia, the Sassy Lawyer takes a contrary position. Interesting! Incidentally, I met Rep. Diaz last night on Tina Monzon Palma’s show. He is apparently the nephew [...]

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The Long View: Dangerous articles

Dangerous articles First posted 22:25:30 (Mla time) September 12, 2004  Manuel L. Quezon III  Inquirer News Service      WHAT surprises me is not that Rep. Antonio Diaz of Zambales has threatened to resign from the House of Representatives; it is the possibility that his resignation might be illegal, a possibility raised by an unnamed [...]

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Edsa!

What’s wrong with our government can be illustrated by one thing: the inability of government agencies to agree on how to repave Edsa. Concrete or not? They can’t make up their minds. So, no improvements on Edsa and no way to spend foreign aid allocated for rehabilitating it. Prof. Felipe Miranda had his last column [...]

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Someone emailed me saying they tried to leave a comment, but couldn’t. Commenting has been disallowed now because my site has been spammed to death by all sorts of peddlers of all sorts of things. My webmaster claims that’s “the price for having a popular blog.” Oh really now? Blush. Today’s pointless rant is on [...]

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Made my day

Last night during dinner, someone mentioned he reads my blog and praised the blog of Batjay. This made me resolve to catch up on my blog-reading. Want to know why Batjay’s blog has fans? Read this entry, which made my day: Kwentong Tambay: SIR, ANONG GUSTO NYO SA ITLOG NYO? NILAGA? PRINITO? O MAY PULBOS?

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Nippon style

In ABS-CBNNEWS.COM, TODAY newspaper has one of its tart editorials basically saying Filipinos should learn to stop blaming the government every time they get into trouble abroad. An interesting tidbit: The Japanese have a better grip on the morality of incidents such as the one Angelo de la Cruz inflicted on the entire Filipino nation. [...]

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