BAR RESULTS IN 1963….
Rummaging thru files, we came across news clippings on the complete bar results in 1963. There’s not much difference on how the announcement was made from how the media do it today. Breaking the bar results is a big event then and now. It looks like from whence the…
The ANATOMY of Moral Indignation
“ASUNCION, PARAGUAY-A third woman came forward Wednesday claiming Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, a former bishop, is the father of her child-this one a 16-month-old boy she named after late Pope John Paul II. The growing number of paternity claims against Lugo…
A short-lived JUNTA TO IRON US OUT?
Revolutions are periods of history where individuals count most …..Norman Mailer We are always reminded about the man who rode the tiger and ended up mortally afraid getting off. Ferdinand Marcos toyed with it and became a hostage to his creation. General Ver and…
LIKE A HOLE IN THE HEAD
By lowering the passing grade from 75% (fixed by the Rules) to 72.5%, the Supreme Court unbelievably jacked up the numbers of unemployed lawyers. It failed to see the economic and social cost of more lawyers into the mainstream in the face of the now sobering economic…
MEL TIANGCO BRISTLES
In the latest issue (April, 2009) of Joann Maglipon’s Yes Magazine, she listed the most influential or powerful personalities in Showbiz for 2008. This was picked up by the two giant networks’, ABS-CBN and GMA 7, entertainment reporters owing to the inclusion of their…
WOMEN AT WAR
There seems to be a war going on in the distaff side. Remember what Chris Rock said? “Women HATE women. You get any two girlfriends in this room, been girlfriends for 25 years, you put a man in between them, “Fuck that bitch,” “Fuck that…
A VICE GOVERNOR’S DEADEND
Reflected glory is all the vice governor has, observed the former mayor of Sampaloc, Agnes Devanadera. She was describing the stature of Robert Racelis, belittling in fact, when he vied for the Governorship ten years ago, by pitting himself against his former patron,…
Tumbas Manipis
Bebe Gandanghari: Sa Pagtikwas Ng Iyong Daliri John Tumbas Manipis Bello Mula sa “Mga Piyesang Tumbas Manipis ng Aking Panahon” by John Bello (Kay Rustom Padilla at mga kauri) “Patay na raw si Rustom Padilla, nakalibing na, ang nabubuhay na ngayon ay…
MENDICANT COURTS
One Cebuano judge made himself too clear cut above the rest, yet the media failed to make out on what he just did. When Judge Gabriel Ingles declined his P18, 000.00 yearly honorarium from the town of Pinamungahan, Cebu, not a squeak was heard from the Philippine…