There was a time when the Youngblood column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer was required reading for people my age.

I make that statement with a certain reluctance, because I realize just how many people younger than me actually read this blog.  But if you're old enough to remember when it first came out, you'll know what I mean.

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"History repeats itself because People Power is not about the one thing we got right. It’s about the many things we keep getting wrong."

Someone told me after reading my post last week that this was a powerful statement, but I needed to back it up.  So instead of writing about everything that's gone wrong since those fateful four days more than ( Read more... )

I have the great (mis)fortune to live beside Epifanio De los Santos Avenue and work on Ayala Avenue, giving me a ringside seat to every misbegotten activist rally and every overdone police barricade staged over the last five years.

Walking along Ayala today, you'd think Manila was in the middle of an invasion. The whole avenue was in lockdown ( Read more... )

Muslims around the world are raging and rioting over "blasphemous" cartoons published by European newspapers.  Since I've never been a fan of political correctness myself, I find this uproar mildly disturbing.  But before I go on, for everyone's benefit (I photoshopped it on my own, and feeling quite proud of it):


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Former UP President (Francisco) Nemenzo - whom I was privileged to serve - was frankly not too fond of the phrase “iskolar ng bayan” to describe the UP student.  We are all, of course, scholars of the people in this university, in the technical sense that our studies are subsidized by the sweat of the poor, whose hopes we bear upon our shoulders.

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