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Indolence as insolence
My recent three-day bout with the flu was anything but normal. Younger, I was of the habit of easily dispensing with the bone and muscle pain which go with the viral infection.
Close to fifty-six, it appears that my body has weakened to the...
‘What’s going to happen now?’
The previous weekend saw me and my wife in the middle of two very important events: a dinner invitation by none other than National Artist for Literature F. Sionil José, and a book launch-cum-birthday bash the day after of another National Artist for...
Falling asleep in the time of the ‘Woke’ generation
Growing old is not what I thought it would be.
As the Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert wrote, it’s like owning a dog-eared dictionary, published long ago, with absentee words clinging at the hem of its tattered cover jacket.
A new take on language...
Why press freedom? Why not responsible journalism?
We hear it often said how important press freedom is to the nation’s sociopolitical health.
The reason being is that information is currency, and with such currency in the hands of the people, their chances for survival are greater than without it.
Information in and...
Caligula and the weaponization of humiliation
I’m no historian. Call me a history buff with an insatiable liking for what is either vintage or ancient. I love reading anything that reeks of the sands and pyramids of Egypt, the lost city of Atlantis, the ancient Holy Roman Empire, and,...
Dengue de Rigueur
Summer comes, and with it mosquitoes and dengue.
Even as the holiday cold fritters away, the Department of Health has already noticed an alarming spike in cases of what is otherwise known in its extreme form as hemorrhagic fever.
Some 2,100 people have been infected...
