One of the unfortunate side-effects of the rise of Facebook is that kids nowadays have actually drifted further and further away from writing. Not banging away quick and easy retorts to Facebook comments and current events; not the tortured compositions that pass for profundity in various status updates throughout the social webs; not the gonzo […]
Maybe we should draft our own cyber army.
Resting in peace and moving us only by their memories, legacies, and wisdom. Under ordinary circumstances, that ought to be the extent of our dearly departed’s influence on current events. Instead, we see their names popping up on the list of voters, giving rise to specters of flying voters and electoral fraud. The main reason […]
It looks like voter registration will resume in July.
This piece was originally published on another blog of mine. http://www.jamesjimenez.com/angtiwarik/2012/06/19/asalto-jose-rizal-pepe/ – James I was privileged to have been invited to the blogger’s night of the Knights of Rizal – Asalto Para Kay Pepe. Unfortunately, I couldn’t stay long and had to bail just before a descendant of Rizal took the stage. By that time, […]
The tweet du jour yesterday was [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/ItsYourJasmine/status/329257710522621953″] Medyo corny, as these jokes go, but that’s a pretty fair question. Sino nga ba si wisely? With the caveat that you should consider these words to be a starting point for your own decision making, let’s go! Wisely is a candidates who is Willful, who has […]
There are a lot of things I could say about not being able to vote in the coming elections, but none of them would make sense. The fact is that I wasn’t able to vote in May 2010, and again in October of the same year. And because of that, the rules say my registration […]
Arkady couldn’t believe that his father would refuse to get him a dog after all of his promises. He had done his chores without having to be told; he had saved up all his money buy a collar and a leash so that that dog would not run away into the woods and get lost […]
Christmas remains relevant to many people, for many personal reasons. However, if one were to look beyond the personal warm-and-fuzzies, one cannot help but be saddened by the fact that this once most exuberant of holidays has been muted. Gone are the trapping of Christmas – the brightly colored lanterns,if they are there at all, […]
Here’s the video of the Chairman speaking about the possible thirteenth Senatorial slot for the 2013 elections. In summary, the COMELEC’s concerns revolve around two things: first, the instructions to the PCOS; and second, how the various political parties will configure their slates. To explain: Instructions to PCOS, not changes to the ballot. Ordinarily, the […]