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A reading from the 1st letter of Rodrigo to Filipinos

You know there’s a page in the Bible which I read almost every day. It’s the Ecclesiastes 3. 'There’s a time to be calm, there’s...

Cola wars 2.0

Tito Sotto is at the receiving end of some very bad legal advice.  On the heels of his election as Senate President, he composes...

Blunder bus

Okay.  My friend assured me that this story is true:  his friend who told him the story told him that it most assuredly was true and...

Ladies who protest too much

Two peckers are being measured against each other, and loath as I am to extend the shelf life of this non-story, extend I must...

The lion, the Atom, and the movie

When a movie gets buzz less for its merits than for matters aliunde, what we lawyers call extrinsic, then something is wrong. Citizen Jake...

Just as you are

I need more proof.  A Chilean guy named Juan Carlos Cruz claims that Pope Francis told him during a private talk in the Vatican,...

Wedding bans

The bride wore white.  The interior, too, of St. George’s chapel where Meghan Markle and Prince Harry were wed, was awash in white, referring...

The era of ill feelings

Cursed the office of Chief Justice is. This assertion is a piece of recently hard-won wisdom, which should explain why I am inverting syntax...

You better work by Marie Yuvienco

An uncanny feeling of déjà vu pervades Executive Order No. 51 signed by Rodrigo Duterte this past Labor Day.  It says nothing new, its...

The fox and the pitbull by Marie Yuvienco

If Rodrigo Duterte felt no compunction cussing out the Pope, it is unlikely he’ll be suffering pangs of conscience over ordering the deportation of...