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by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - February 18, 2007 - 12:00am

It's funny how the proponents of Sugbuak (which we could probably anoint as the "Chop Chop Cebu" bill) have been so quiet. Their battle to divide Cebu into four provinces lies not with the press. It doesn't...

Springs Eternal

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - January 14, 2007 - 12:00am

This is it - the moment all the government fawn-ctionaries have been waiting for. It's now officially the ASEAN Summit, when everybody puts on their best clothes and pretends to be as civilized as the international...

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - January 7, 2007 - 12:00am

The Manila Film Festival is supposedly the showcase of the local industry, during which time all cinemas are required to carry Philippine movies. Unfortunately, it's also the time when stingy producers force-feed...

Justiciable Controversy

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - December 3, 2006 - 12:00am

What Miriam Defensor Santiago must have felt like. Imagine - choosing her power outfit of the day, some nice little number that says 'I'm a Senator, a co-equal with the perfect right to address her colleagues...

A destabilizer speaks

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - September 10, 2006 - 12:00am

Secretary Raul Gonzalez just made thousands of U.P. students and alumni sit up and take notice. This was when he started shooting his mouth off about how my dearly beloved alma mater supposedly breeds destabilizers,...

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - August 27, 2006 - 12:00am

I think the last thing a Supreme Court Justice would want to be remembered as is a bigot and a homophobe. Unfortunately, that's just what former Justice Isagani Cruz seems to be bound for, after having published...

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - July 9, 2006 - 12:00am

Did the Pope actually give our President Arroyo a pat at the back, and tell her, "well done"? That's the newest controversy, it seems. The President was in Rome last week, rising from her hospital bed after a bout...

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - June 18, 2006 - 12:00am

I'm so glad her highness, the Governess of Cebu, has decided to take an active role in protecting the island of Malapascua. By castigating the "stakeholders" of the island and commanding them to shape up, and by...

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - June 11, 2006 - 12:00am

I was shocked to see Amelie Mauresmo booted out of the French Open. All this time, I had been harboring the stout belief that she would make history by being the first out lesbian to win this tennis tournament. (Note,...

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - June 11, 2006 - 12:00am

I was shocked to see Amelie Mauresmo booted out of the French Open. All this time, I had been harboring the stout belief that she would make history by being the first out lesbian to win this tennis tournament. (Note,...

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - April 23, 2006 - 12:00am

Can a private Christian school expel students who are suspected to be gays or lesbians? Over in the US, a case wending its way through a California court is being watched, by media and activists alike, very closely....

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - March 26, 2006 - 12:00am

What's with all the fuss about artists stripping as a show of support? This week, some artists from UP (my alma mater, by the way) trying to drum up support for a local tv personality in yet another one of those...

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - February 26, 2006 - 12:00am

Tom Hanks is producing a TV series about polygamy. HBO has reportedly agreed to air it, giving the go-signal for ten episodes. Come March, the show, called "Big Love," will be available for public viewing - at least...

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - February 12, 2006 - 12:00am

Of course I'm going to hurl my two cents worth into the Wowowee fray. Oh, it will be nowhere near "throwing a piece of meat to a pack of hungry wolves," as the Under Secretary of the Interior so vividly put it. More...

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - February 5, 2006 - 12:00am

The next chapter in the saga of embattled Wesy Quisumbing came last Friday, when the Presiding Judge of her case ordered all three lawyers jailed for direct contempt.

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - December 11, 2005 - 12:00am

I'd say "Ang pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros" is easily one of the most memorable films I've seen this year. I'm not saying best, or funniest. Just that - memorable.

Perverse pranks

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - November 13, 2005 - 12:00am

There's really no end to the possibilities of malice. I'm amazed at how ingenious, or perverted, depending on how you look at it, people can get when trying to get back at other people.

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - November 6, 2005 - 12:00am

That stupid EVAT has come into effect, and now I have to prepare to pay higher prices for everything. Never mind what this even stupider government says, but as a taxpayer whose income gets slashed by a third every...

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - October 23, 2005 - 12:00am

US$99 round trip to Singapore? Sound too good to be true! (And it was.) That's what Silk Air offered in an ad published last week. I got all excited and started jumping up and down, thinking that at last, budget...

by LOOKING ASKANCE By Joseph T. Gonzales - September 25, 2005 - 12:00am

The following is the transcript of the testimony of international beauty queen Myra Marquis in the ongoing court battle between the First Lady and the Philippine Government: Interpreter: Miss Marquis, Do you swear...

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