Posts Tagged With: death
Life does not get any better with suicide
My thoughts on the Ted Failon case On my way to work today, the cab driver was tuned in on Korina Sanchez’s radio program and she was speaking over the phone with NCRPO Chief Superintendent Roberto Rosales over what seemed to be the ‘intentional’ prolonging of the case by the QCPD. “Didiretsahan ko na kayo [...]
Fraternities
I still don’t get why fraternities exist in this world. I don’t understand why men (and women) beat each other up to belong. I don’t understand their initiation rites, what they are trying to prove, and why they think they can prove it logically. Just a while ago, I read an article about two Ateneo [...]
Our National Pride in Tinola
Hungry men don’t ask, they take. – Kenneth Kolb I don’t know whether I should be laughing or feeling sad for the twisted fates of Brian and Kasagbua. The former happens to be a lumad farmer who felled an ‘ordinary bird’ with a rifle shot, and the latter happens to be an endangered species that [...]
the real threat
Two separate and seemingly unrelated stories caught my attention this morning. First was the 200,000 bags of NFA rice that lay rotting in a warehouse in Iloilo. Apparently, these bags were soaked in water when floods struck the city at the height of the typhoon, “Frank.” Months before the typhoon struck, a group of farmers [...]
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