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ELITE: A voyeur’s peek into the darker realms of the principalia

by Joel Pablo Salud Elite. The word hums as if it were a bomb waiting to be donated. In the Philippine context, the word is...

Time, the Cosmos, and Stephen Hawking

Please allow me to nerd this one out. It was a rather sad week with the unexpected passing of English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, and...

Offending onions

Have you ever seen anyone go bat-crazy because of words? I know I have. It was a cool January afternoon when I first heard my...

The thing with feathers—and nostalgia

You see, the thing with feathers is that, if you’re, say, a falcon, having feathers is probably the best thing that has ever happened...

A world without Gabo

Outside of the commonplace sexual trysts penned by Anaïs Nin and the gothic thrillers of Carlos Ruiz Zafón, I practically weaned myself on the...

“To poke the eye of the President”

I recall meeting former President Fidel V. Ramos for the first time. Decades ago I was assigned by a lifestyle magazine editor to conduct...

Surviving an ‘acoustics war’

As with any government agency accused of corrupt practices, working for the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) may not fall under someone’s definition of...

Dunce Macabre: Living in the Age of the Ignoramus

Dunce. Noun. An individual slow at learning. A stupid person. Reminds me of this cartoonish image of a boy, at once presumed disobedient or lacking...

Children and Politics: Where the rubber burns the road

Raising children: it’s not for the faint of heart. To me, the most agonizing of parents’ responsibilities to their kids are not the steady string...

Bayaw: The funny side of defiance

I can’t exactly pinpoint when and where I first met Rodolfo “Jun” Sabayton Jr. He’s such a familiar face to many Filipinos that the...