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The improper forum
by Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin - October 1, 2012 - 3:53pm
Like “good governance” and “national interest,” the government in recent times – regardless of administration – has a penchant for the phrase, “proper forum.” And...
EDSA
by Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin - February 28, 2011 - 10:05am
My generation isn't old enough to remember EDSA. I was just seven months old when People Power happened; my parents named me after President Marcos and President Reagan. My mom says that they never expected Marcos...
Curse of the pharaohs
by Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin - February 14, 2011 - 12:00am
For those of us who have appropriated the revolution of the Egyptian people as our own victory (what with our commitment to tweet in behalf of those putting their bodies on the line), it's easy not to see what lies...
No shelter
by Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin - January 31, 2011 - 10:10am
When the houses of informal settlers get demolished, it's quite easy for the haves to look at widespread poverty and the inherent unfairness in the economic system as personal hurdles that one should surmount, instead...
Out of order
by Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin - January 24, 2011 - 12:00am
If we are to consider the line of reasoning followed by Andres Manuel, defense counsel for the suspects in the Maguindanao Massacre, the story could have gone this way: on November 23, 2009, some of the 58 people...
Where's the sympathy?
by Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin - January 17, 2011 - 12:00am
Over a year ago, perhaps the most amazing display of social solidarity in the Philippines happened on Twitter. As a great portion of Metro Manila was submerged in floodwaters and cloaked in blackouts caused by storm...
Polar opposition
by Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin - January 10, 2011 - 12:00am
Over six months into the Aquino Administration, I guess it's safe to say that an opposition has formed – one that is clearly against President Benigno Aquino III. In The STAR's podcast hosted by Mr. Cito...
Just another victim
by Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin - December 27, 2010 - 12:00am
Back in the 1990s, there was this surge of “true crime” movies that portrayed the men and women of the law — lawyers, investigators, police officers, judges, and even priests — as almost-superheroes....
At what prize peace?
by Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin - December 20, 2010 - 12:00am
President Aquino said it himself: The snub of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize awarding ceremony was done for the sake of “national interest.” The Nobel boycott lends itself very well to personal disappointment....
Violent dispersal
by Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin - December 6, 2010 - 12:00am
The poet Wilfred Owen used some poignant descriptions of gas warfare in the First World War. The soldier in Owen's poem didn't simply succumb to gas: he had a “hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin.”...
Spread the outrage
by Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin - November 29, 2010 - 12:00am
I got into an argument last night over what I first perceived as a “lack of sense of proportion” in conversations in social media. After all, it the girls that P-Noy loved before get more traction...
In memory of a massacre
by Featured Blogger Marck Ronald Rimorin - November 22, 2010 - 12:00am
One thing is certain: you never thought it would have happened. Our penchant for amnesia is reflected in so many ways: soap operas, grocery store change, fare. It’s not an attitude problem, but a penchant:...
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