I love the premise of this web-based comedy sketch: Henry VIII is alive and well, living in suburbia with his long-suffering wife Catherine Parr, and seriously addicted to the Internet. Why are they stealing scenes from my life now?!

The new Noynoy for President platform does a good job at differentiating his style of governance against the incumbent's. It's a great platform, if he were running against Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

John Shelby Spong's book Born of a Woman discusses the developing concept of the "purity of Mary". Mary, Spong argues, embodies a male-created ideal of submissiveness (much alive in the Catholic church) that Corazon Aquino typifies - an image that stands in opposition to Reformation-born example of female power, Margaret Thatcher.

Political marriages in the Philippines tend to end well for the marriage-makers, but poorly for the country at large. Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Mike Arroyo. Now Mar Roxas and Korina Sanchez...

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Will be changing the design, and will be making a promise to update more often. A promise I hope not to break too soon. Video from funny Tamil call center impresario after the jump.

Suzette Nicolas is not a "victim". Sure, she was weepy and vengeful when she needed the support of Gabriela, pandering politicians, and the ever-pliant blogosphere, and now that she's safely in the U.S., she drops the bombshell on us, "hey, you know what, maybe it didn't happen the way I said it did."...

The Congressional Research Service, a think tank employed by the U.S. Congress, was supposed to make its findings public… but the Internet has beat them to it.

Apropos of the EDSA anniversary we're "celebrating" this week, this comment in Metafilter seems to address our country's main quandary even if it has nothing to do with us in the first place....

I love this surreal, haunting video. Musical dreaminess after the jump.

Having her baptized was really not my idea. I was fine with having Andie go "infidel" all the way, a privilege I never got to have. But we knew that leaving her unbaptized would mean Chinese water torture from both sets of grandmothers...

Freethinkers in a meeting have a weird sense of humor. Though we had a little serious business to undertake in our meeting last Sunday, there were a few lines that were bound to get the group giggling. "I think we should start with a prayer." Snort, giggle....

Shots from Pestablogger 2008 in Jakarta, Indonesia. Click through to see the image slideshow.

If you’re arriving here from a link on Pestablogger.com or some other Indonesia-related site, you may be wondering what the hell I wrote in here to deserve a free trip to your beautiful country. Don’t worry, I have another site, Southeast Asia Travel at About.com - that site is the reason I was able to [...]

I’m setting up here at: micketymoc.mchronicles.net (Just like the old one, only “blue” is replaced by “m”.) Meet me there. Muchas gracias to Anne and her many years of hosting me and the wifey!

I love, love, love articles that leave your brain a different shape than it was before reading them. This week Metafilter was responsible for a few more dings in my noggin: Unspeakable Conversations. In which an activist for the disabled meets and debates an animal rights activist who believes that disabled babies should be killed. [...]

Whatever you do, don’t fucking touch her cookies. Thank you for the pic, Nancy Dorsner.

The Large Hadron Collider went online this week. OK, I know that some people have been claiming it’ll create black holes and cause the end of the world, but we know better, right? Look, there have been many, many occasions when people were sure the end of the world was nigh - but nothing happened! Nothing [...]

On my Facebook account, my status message reads: I worship at the church of Lylah Reyes MD. Services every Saturday this September. For the past eight months we’ve put our health and happiness in the hands of one person. Our OB GYN. Dr. Lylah Reyes has the power of life and death over us. Our devotion [...]

Big shout-out to Leinil Yu for grabbing the headlines tonight - his inclusion of Prez Gloria in a double-page spread for Marvel Comics’ Secret Invasion caught GMA-7 News’ attention: This page requires a higher version browser Before you read too much into this, Leinil writes in his Deviantart blog to deny that this is a political statement. [...]