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How pathetic we have become
by Aven Piramide - November 17, 2024 - 12:00am
Among the fundamental principles of a republican form of government is the holding of election. Those who lead the government are chosen by the people composing the body politic.
In continued search for senators
by Aven Piramide - November 14, 2024 - 12:00am
Out of the dizzying flux of social media platforms, two terms have evolved - bloggers and influencers.
Harlem-like legislative exhibition
by Aven Piramide - November 10, 2024 - 12:00am
There was a Cebuano senator who became known as the author of the Press Freedom Law. Senator Vicente Yap Sotto wrote Republic Act No. 53 in 1946. Actually it is one among the shortest laws I have read containing,...
A pitch for Heidi Mendoza
by Aven Piramide - November 7, 2024 - 12:00am
During those times when we, old disc jockeys, still played vinyl records in our radio programs, we adopted an unusual term - “re-groove.” We meant the point when the music would sound repeating a lyrical...
Why the Commission on Human Rights failed
by Aven Piramide - October 31, 2024 - 12:00am
Proclamation No. 1081, was promulgated more than fifty years ago. It became notoriously known as the Martial Law declaration of former President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos.
Political Fujiwhara
by Charisse Piramide - October 27, 2024 - 12:00am
A weather bulletin issued by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration last Friday startled us. It reported that the severe tropical storm Kristine, which just blew out of...
A Senator De La Rosa joke
by Aven Piramide - October 20, 2024 - 12:00am
In public speaking, as it is even in press conferences, a communicator holds his audience better if he weaves jokes in his exposition.
Mayor Garcia can make our city food sufficient
by Aven Piramide - October 17, 2024 - 12:00am
Two communist countries isolated themselves fora considerably long period of time.
My initial list of whom not to vote as senator
by Aven Piramide - October 13, 2024 - 12:00am
There were two intellectuals who lived significant lives about 2,000 years apart from each other.
Weaponizing an absurd interpretation of nepotism
by Aven Piramide - October 10, 2024 - 12:00am
If according to a Chinese proverb a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, I like to imagine that to understand the perceived political misfortune of “dismissed” Cebu City Mayor Michael...
Watching for a surge favoring the “dejado”
by Aven Piramide - October 6, 2024 - 12:00am
Sabong competes with basketball as our national pastime.
The emerging fiefdoms
by Aven Piramide - October 3, 2024 - 12:00am
Khaled Elgindy wrote in the Foreign Affairs last August 20, 2024 that “As Israel’s current war in Gaza has unfolded, Abbas has remained impotent and irrelevant, and even his fiefdom in the West Bank has...
Whose COCs I will favor?
by Aven Piramide - September 29, 2024 - 12:00am
The other day, Friday, I visited my very small property in the mountain barangay of Paril, this city.
If Tommy “O” decides to run for mayor
by Aven Piramide - September 26, 2024 - 12:00am
In the 2022 Presidential Elections, here in Cebu City, Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos Jr., obtained 325,000 votes.
More than just pathological liars  
by Aven Piramide - September 22, 2024 - 12:00am
“Experience is the best teacher” is a phrase we ordinarily use in our daily conversation.
Waldy Carbonell lesson on Sen. Robin Padilla
by Aven Piramide - September 19, 2024 - 12:00am
As a teenage disk jockey in the late 1960s, I read, on air, the poem of Rolando Carbonell entitled Beyond Forgetting so often that I, partly a romanticist, eventually idolized him and memorized his love poem.
It was no presentation
by Aven Piramide - September 12, 2024 - 12:00am
The motion picture industry made a tremendous jump in viewership when it improved from black and white to color films.
On the kiosk of good governance
by Aven Piramide - September 8, 2024 - 12:00am
I had two emotionally opposite experiences involving “kiosks” when I was in my elementary grades.
Boycott things made in China
by Aven Piramide - September 5, 2024 - 12:00am
A Philippine contribution to the world’s legal literature is the book Public International Law written by the late Senator Jovito Salonga and former Supreme Court Chief Justice Pedro Yap, a Cebuano.
Not just Freudian slip but malevolence
by Aven Piramide - September 1, 2024 - 12:00am
In an FB post that I saw the other day, Vice President Sara Duterte Carpio, during her appearance in the congressional hearing on the budgetary proposal for the Office of the Vice President, was a revelation.
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