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I cuss, therefore I am
Have you ever wondered how people came up with the axiom “The road to hell is paved with good intentions”?
Simple. It stands to reason that after hundreds of thousands of years of existence, the devil was finally able to read—and put to good...
The activism of letters
To be writing is to be in a particular relation to the world; it is to be linguistically in process, not waiting for a wave but engaging it, instincts and reflexes on high alert, whereas simply fulfilling the outer demand to be putting...
Journalists’ lives matter
It’s as if by staggering, weak and helpless, and with a bullet in the chest, a journalist is given that one chance at reporting the grandest of all stories: his own murder.
This image of a corpse, sprawled and brutalized out of shape while...
How to create a generation of criminals
It skipped our notice again: senators passing a bill they hardly understood, let alone grasped its full implications.
Senate Bill No. 1477, known as an Act of Promoting Positive and Nonviolent Discipline of Children, seeks to prohibit corporal punishment on children below 18 years...
Communism is not a crime
First a disclaimer: while I may have loved my wife Che for the last 12 years and addressed her as Commandante (because of her namesake, Che Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary), and named my son Lenin (no relation to the fierce Bolshevik intellectual who...
Deconstructing the myth of free education
Red October: an altogether fictitious story put out in public by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police (PNP), saying that the Communists are concocting a plot to oust Pres. Rodrigo Roa Duterte.
The plot goes like this (or...
