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V is for vérité

Is the best defense always a good offense?  What if I told you that there have been times when the best defense is a...

Uppance come a-knocking

In criminal law, it is believed that “the guilty flee when no one pursueth but the innocent are as bold as a lion.”  This...

When winners lose it

As the first Japanese—and Haitian, too—to win the US Open, one of tennis’ four Grand Slams, Naomi Osaka is something more than a winner: ...

Why I am still Catholic

“They hid it all.” It says so right there, on page seven, of the redacted report of a Pennsylvania grand jury investigation into the sexual...

We should be dancing, yeah

Now that a week’s worth of news cycles has passed, the matter of Mocha Uson’s federalism-inspired choreography can be discussed rationally. At least that...

The talk

W­hat am I doing wrong? In a few weeks, I will be turning 51 and have been conversing with God nightly for almost as long....

In excelsis deo

The election of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the new Speaker of the House proves that the Philippines is no longer in remission.  She is on...

Practical theory

Are we ladies protesting too much?  The intention was good, but is it fair to damn the Angono police as leading women to somewhere...

By farce of arms

Many mythologies tell stories of men, some heroic, others not, whose might and power gave them an aura of invincibility stronger than any armor....

The devil goes shirtless

Listen, I think President Duterte is a hypocrite.  For all his bombast against Catholicism, his pronouncements, lo and behold, have a solid foundation in...