Any of you ever murder a grade school student? Rape a German Shepherd? Invade South Ossetia? I got you all beat. I wrote a radio script for Senator Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. It was the mid-to-late ‘90s, when Ate Glo was nowhere near the rampaging tyrant she is today. Let’s just say this was in the time of [...]

I loved this article by Noralyn Mustafa. I know it’s disrespectful to try to draw any moral lesson from any writing that doesn’t have any such conclusion explicitly on display, but I’ll say this about the article: it’s silly to think that one can build a nation by fiat when a territory’s history and culture [...]

I’m proud to say my cousin Blogie Robillo is one of the driving forces behind Wordcamp Philippines 2008 (together with his motley crew at MindanaoBloggers). I’m coming to Wordcamp to sharpen my business blogging skillz, as this is keeping me crazy busy (on top of my day job). Wonder why I haven’t been blogging here [...]

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Mary Racelis, The Missing Voices of Poor Women: “Of the 473,400 Filipino women per year estimated in 2000 to have undergone an abortion… statistics from 1,658 hospitals revealed that 105,000 women wound up in hospital beds from complications, mainly hemorrhaging and infections. An estimated 12 percent, or 12,600, died…. Research on the subject is taboo [...]

You will love John R. Butler. You will want to have his babies. Amen.

Am now listening to Mary Roach’s newest book, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. You can tell from my previous review of Roach’s first book that I am a slavering fan of her work; so far, book #3 does not disappoint. For starters, I know now that female lubricating fluid is not glandular in [...]

This page requires a higher version browserFor the latest Philippine news stories and videos, visit GMANews.TV Let’s give the media some credit – they know the Catholic Church’s stand against reproductive health is totally, absolutely, abysmally wrong, but seeing as they can’t openly speak out against the Church, they resort instead to the subtle context kneecapping [...]

My old boss (not this old boss) finally got around to transferring his old Betamax recordings to digital media. Keep checking back on his blog to see the goods. For now, here’s a clip from 1980: “BADAF Forever”.

“How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, that has such people in’t!” – Miranda, the Tempest, Act V, Scene 1

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“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends…. What do you get at the end of it? Death! I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, [...]

Visitors to Manila are well advised to bring some sturdy headgear, as babies are being constantly thrown from windows. Tourists in Binondo have complained after narrowly missing being hit by a baby thrown from a condominium last week. Just a few hours later, traffic in Paco was aggravated by a baby thrown from a moving taxi. “Manila’s [...]

When a Navy reservist actor dies, what do you call the gunfire that sees him off? Whatever you do, don’t ask Ricky Lo. The Philippine Star celebrity reporter headlines his “news item” on actor Rudy Fernandez’ burial with the words “21-gun salute”, provoking a firestorm of criticism in the comments section. Whoever thought of this should [...]

Ces Drilon’s disappearance in Mindanao is sad, but I find it difficult to feel honestly, truly sad. I felt much sorrier for the kid whose left eye was gouged out by a madman than I do for a reporter who knew the risks going in. Just my opinion, folks. Empathy, for me, is a finite resource: [...]

Ate Luds, pwede bang mag-plugging? Because I realize that atheism with a capital A isn’t really for everyone. Because (despite my lack of faith) I’m still open to the possibility that the next-best thing to less religion in society is a multitude of religions displacing a monoculturally-Catholic society. Because there’s this huge middle ground between Richard [...]

I knew there was a reason I chucked religion. Atheism is teh new sexay. (Snitched from Pharyngula.)

This commercial has just renewed my faith in the Discovery Channel. Featuring cameos by Bear Grylls, Richard Machowitz, Mike Rowe, Adam Savage & Jamie Hyneman, and Stephen Hawking. More info on the campaign and a high-res download of the commercial can be found here. Boom de ah dah, boom de ah dah.

God Thinks - Voltaire Sorry for the endless media posts, have been rather busy. Please entertain yourself for the time being with this nice song from a very nice fellow. God thinks all blacks are obsolete farm equipment God thinks the Jews killed his son and must be punished God thinks the white man is Satan God, they know what [...]

For lo, the Empire hath fallen, and the Alliance victorious, yea, succored by cute teddy bear creatures.