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Friday, March 30, 2018

Foucault gets drunk on Good Friday

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What knowledge can be  more powerful than  knowing that You are God? A thousand different  things I would do if  I suppose I were  You. I sn...
Sunday, March 04, 2018

Friday Night Rhapsody

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What could be a better deal than this? I give you my money You give me in  toxi cation. The spirit I can’t hear it. No, I can’t see it.  Onl...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Impeaching Sereno is a giant step backwards

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A couple of years ago, I posted here that the appointment of then Justice Sereno is the most important defining moment of the PNoy Presidenc...
Saturday, October 28, 2017

Day 79: How do you like to spend eternity hazing?

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And so it comes to pass that our law students are going through the old and barbaric system of hazing again to initiate a member into frater...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Day 78: Hope

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"Master, why do we repeat our mistakes?" asked the pupil to the Master. The Master shook his head. "We're no d...
Monday, September 25, 2017

Day 77: Purpose

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“Master,” the pupil asked, ”does anything happen by chance?” And the Master made a frown, “When the universe speaks to you, it is never supe...
Friday, September 08, 2017

Day 76. The Wisdom of a Rat

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Asked the pupil to the Master, "Master, why is life so difficult?" The Master looked at him and smiled. "Try asking that to a...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Bar Boys is a topnotcher

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The danger in having a lawyer watch a film about law school is he might see things in the movie that aren’t there. Going through the maze of...
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Day 75

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Asked the pupil to the Master, Is it good if the evil man is killed by evil means? And the Master replied, Careful with your words. To the e...
Sunday, July 16, 2017

Day 74: Tanong

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May pilosopo ba sa langit? Kung nakita na ang katotohanan, at ang diwa ng kataga ay ngayon at magpakailanman pa man, kung ang misteryo ng pa...
Saturday, July 15, 2017

Day 73: The Face Bandit

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She enters the room silently as a cat does and murmurs to me the accomplice to this task that she wants Pares Sais. In this place, breakfast...
Thursday, April 27, 2017

Day 72. From a Legal Memorandum

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Respondent can find as a many contradictions as he pleases with the irrevocable special power of attorney and the Memorandum of Agreement, m...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Day 71. Karma is a hoax

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One of the most fascinating songs of the Beatles is "The End" from their last album Abbey Road. The song is the last in a medley o...
Friday, March 24, 2017

Day 70: Animal Talk

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Is greed an emotion? asked the bull to the monkey. The monkey shook his head, saying Why do you ask silly questions?  The bull munched on gr...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Day 69: Fashion Mishaps by Chuang Tzu

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Well pressed shirt with purple tie dimpled at the middle where the knot is — a perfection taking years to master, then your pen blots it all...
Thursday, March 09, 2017

Day 67/68 Nietzsche the Clerk

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You should have  told me a day before yesterday if it was due yesterday. Power is you with the bottle of Scotch as I miss dinner, tv, and sl...
Tuesday, March 07, 2017

Day 64/65/66: I missed a poem

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yesterday, as I hopped  from isle to isle first stop Bulalacao, darling town of Mindoro;  a thrilling ride on the hills  overlooking the sea...
Saturday, March 04, 2017

Day 63: Coffee Talk

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We entered the cafeteria unwelcomed by that smell of cow  innards stewed in ginger. You asked —  is there a  difference in the conversation ...
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Friday, March 03, 2017

Day 62. Variation on a Prayer #2

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Dear Lord, Let Thou be the ship, whilst I be the sea.  Amen
Thursday, March 02, 2017

Day 61: Variation on a Prayer

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Dear Lord, Let thou be the train, whilst I be the tracks.  Amen
Wednesday, March 01, 2017

Day 60. Joseng Sisiw sa Manila

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Tanong ni Joseng Sisiw  sa batang eskwela — May tula bang makikita pagtayo mo sa kalsada hawak ang pansahod ng barya, trabaho’y sumenyas sa ...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Day 59: Usapang Lasing

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Walang rebolusyon, wika ng isang namundok sa kanyang dating kasama sa kilusan. Ang kapangyarihan ay kakabit ng katakawan; ang  bayani noon, ...
Monday, February 27, 2017

Day 58: The Wrong Thing

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Said the Master  to his pupil, Superman dying is not a possibility  any one likes to imagine. The glory from saving  the little child trappe...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Day 57: The Man Who Cried Wolf

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There is no wolf he cried when asked about the dismembered body of the boy of four his heart missing his clawed face all bloodied. The villa...
Saturday, February 25, 2017

Day 56: Why your Dad is not in EDSA

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Imagine if General Tadiar channeled your Dad, “Tadjak” they called him fierce marine, trained to kill, a sea of people barricading his tank ...
Friday, February 24, 2017

Day 55: Fr. Gomez Contemplates Sen. De Lima's Arrest

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Dawn in the month of February I walk uncertain  what lies ahead A leaf, I say, doesn’t move without  the  will of the Creator;  Zamora’s gon...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Day 54: Wika ng Maestro

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Wika ng maestro— Ang galing ng tagak kung magtungo siya sa tabing-dagat hindi maaring wala siyang huli kung sumablay man sa una walang kiyem...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Day 53: Solved is the Mystery

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Ay! Ay! Solved is the mystery! The Mayor, the Mayor, Lord and king  of the  great city who’s no way a sissy, became our prexy because God wa...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Day 52: Tatay Tatay

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Tatay, tatay huwag papatay ng lamok ay, ay,  ay, away insekto Ay dugo  palit buhay Why? Why? Why Tatay? huwag papatay ng baboy Oy,...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Day 51: My Wife, the Painter

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My wife, the painter,  says as she whips the canvas with her brush —  In Bhutan they fear the  empty; evil creeps in & fills it up the w...
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