The papers continue to focus on the recent operation of the President’s husband.In the punditocracy, Bong Austero writes on Sonia Roco losing some votes due to a remark she made using an Autism analogy.  Austero closes with the pointed comment that, which on the face of it, seems to be true (I could quibble with it, but I won’t).  But his column does bring to mind a recent blog entry in History Unfolding.

The papers all headlined the surgery that the President’s husband underwent, which by all accounts was a serious operation, indeed.  For details on what happened to him, read these articles in the US National Institute of Health and from the Mayo Clinic, and take a look at the nifty pictures in Wikipedia.

An attack of gas hospitalized the President’s husband and in turn, kept her from the Bataan Day commemoration.  Ramon Farolan has a nice column on the fall of Bataan.  The Philippines Free Press blog has some oldie but goodie readings: False rumors and false hopes, on the rumors that gripped the populace in the early months of the war; the poignant I saw the Death March; and World War II in the Philippines, which puts it all in perspective.

THE LONG VIEW Calendar complexities    By Manuel L. Quezon III Inquirer First Posted 00:30am (Mla time) 04/05/2007   MANILA, Philippines — HAVE you ever paused to wonder why Easter is such a moveable date? The Easter holiday has been determined by three great calendars followed in three great historical capitals: Jerusalem, Rome and Constantinople. [...]

THE LONG VIEW Kill the karaoke singer  By Manuel L. Quezon III Inquirer First Posted 00:43am (Mla time) 04/02/2007   MANILA, Philippines – When I was a wee tot, my father resigned in disgust from a private club to which his father had belonged, because, he said angrily, “It’s been reduced to something like the [...]

The exodus to the countryside has begun, and anyone left in metropolitan areas is distracted and not focused on anything to do with current events….  The week before, the week of, and the week after, Holy Week, very little, if at all, gets done….  Over in the Inquirer Current blog, my entry is on the great debates that have surrounded the choice for the date of Easter.