(Or: Twilight carries the chronic, incurable Idiocy virus)
From "The Great Book Blockade of 2009" by Robin Hemley:
Over coffee one afternoon, a book-industry professional (whom I can't identify) told me that for the past two months virtually no imported books had entered the country, in part because of the success of one book, Twilight by Stephenie ( Read more... )

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If Tina Fey wanted to squeeze any spoofs out of the vice-presidential debate, she would need comedic superpowers: Sarah Palin did extremely well. Of course, considering that the expectations for her were rock-bottom to begin with, that's not saying all that much. Still, there were no major gaffes. It's almost as if the Sarah Palin of the past weeks ( Read more... )

Fr. Ranhilio Callangan Aquino, Dean of the San Beda College of Law, on Rodolfo Noel "Jun" Lozada, Jr.*:
Why is Lozada going from school to school? Is he trying to drum up public sympathy for himself or public support against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo? That is not the work of witness. That is the work of a propagandist.

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Suicide
Editorial
Philipppine Daily Inquirer

In the same way that a sinner finds there is a pattern to his sins, ex-coup plotters or former mutinous soldiers end up repeating old battle plans, even those that failed to work the first time. On Thursday, Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, the leader of the Magdalo mutineers who took over the Oakwood apartment ( Read more... )

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The raging debate in the Philippines today has to do with the proposition that the presidential system of government has dismally failed and should now be replaced by parliamentary rule. The warrior advocates of the parliamentary system have gone to war. Largely by stealth, crimson propaganda and conspiratorial cunning, (and without any ( Read more... )