You know, it’s sort of like the song:Why do you build me up (build me up) Buttercup, babyJust to let me down (let me down) and mess me aroundAnd then worst of all (worst of all) you never call, babyWhen you say you will (say you will) but I love you stillI need you (I need you) more than anyone, darlin’You know that I have from the startSo build me up (build me up) Buttercup, don’t break my heart.But seriously folks.  RG gives the lowdown on the gang bang that turned into the sound of one palm slapping.

Opportunity to Change the Ship’s Direction Is Being Lost in Manila Manuel L. Quezon III   From time to time, I’m asked to present what’s called a “national situationer,” for groups interested in the political situation. The difficulty is avoiding excessive partisanship in order to paint a rosy picture for my own political views, or [...]

Opportunity to Change the Ship’s Direction Is Being Lost in Manila Manuel L. Quezon III   From time to time, I’m asked to present what’s called a “national situationer,” for groups interested in the political situation. The difficulty is avoiding excessive partisanship in order to paint a rosy picture for my own political views, or [...]

These made me laugh: baratillo@cubao pens a musical number and RG Cruz delivers a health bulletin in deadpan fashion.Newsstand on the little school that could.

There will be viewers like beabear who will like the choices made by the show, and other viewers like CAFFiend, who will detest it.  Others, such as Philippine e-Legal Forum and comelec AKO find it provokes thinking further on a topic.  All I can say is we’re trying our best and learning through trial and error.

Some of my favorite shows didn’t even finish their inaugural seasons, in particular Heist (axed after only 4 episodes) and Threshold, which didn’t even finish it’s season.1….  Boston Legal has some of the most delightful repartee (see Wikiquote) and there’s the Unofficial Fan Site3….  Criminal Minds begins and ends with nifty quotes (quoted and compiled in Wikiquote) there’s Mandy Patinkin see the fan site, Criminal Minds Online12.

The Russian Czar Alexander II once said something along the lines of “reform must be imposed from above if destruction is to be prevented from beginning from below.”…  We hope to meet sometime after the conference concludes.One of the papers he sent is on Rizal, titled “The Prophet of Two Revolutions,” which discusses his influence on two revolutions, those of 1896 and 1986….  The Unresolved Philippine Dilemma.”Since this blog will be inactive over the next couple of days (I’ll be attending a conference), I hope you’ll download his two papers and take a look at them.

Franklin D.  Roosevelt’s last press conference was almost entirely about the Philippines.

Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane, Jr.  will be the next Secretary of National Defense.  Newsbreak broke the story just a few minutes ago, and its sources are superb.

I’ve been pondering (rather slowly) turning The Philippine Presidency Project into a Wiki (though not freely editable for the near term) and started a kind of public scratch pad with a Wiki on the 2007 Elections.But now I’ve come across Campaigns Wikia so I’m tinkering with creating a Philippines page for the site (eventually, to be able to add the midterms to their election calendar).Apparently one useful rule for Wikis is, if one exists covering your area of interest, instead of creating yet another wiki that might die, simply go and identify the most relevant wiki already online, and add to it.  Here are some pretty nifty ones that I didn’t know about before:JurisPedia which covers the law, and legal and political sciences….  There are also the documents on the surrender of Japan, for example.An exciting one is Wikocracy, where people can post a law or even a constitution, and ask others to revise it.