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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.
Barking at the wrong tree
by Aven Piramide - August 29, 2024 - 12:00am
I spent my afternoon last Monday, a National Heroes’ Day, listening to the long playing records of Jack Jones and Tom Jones while scrolling my cellphone hoping to see funny FB posts.
A Manchurian Candidate, Part Two
by Aven Piramide - August 25, 2024 - 12:00am
The 1972 movie, “The Godfather”, which earned $270 million, was considered as the highest-grossing film of all time.
Idiot’s score board
by Aven Piramide - August 15, 2024 - 12:00am
The very first kind of a reviewer on Constitutional Law that Fr Joaquin Bernas (d. 2021, may his soul rest in peace) wrote was among my early favorite reading materials.
Surveys, for now!
by Aven Piramide - August 8, 2024 - 12:00am
Survey, according to a statistician-friend of mine, is a method of collecting data and information from a group of people to understand their opinions, behaviors or characteristics.
Hot money outflow
by Aven Piramide - August 5, 2024 - 12:00am
It was Alexander Pope who said that a little learning is a dangerous thing.
A barber’s lesson
by Aven Piramide - August 1, 2024 - 12:00am
“Kwentong Barbero” is a Tagalog phrase. It has no equivalent in Bisaya that I know.
Robin Padilla is the queer senator we need
by Aven Piramide - July 25, 2024 - 12:00am
“Of all the queer birds I ever did see, the owl is the queerest by part of me.”
2 plus 2 is many against one
by Aven Piramide - July 18, 2024 - 12:00am
I had an opportunity to discuss to a motley of interested professionals an aspect of the freedom of speech where I quoted Chief Justice Enrique Fernando, an eminent scholar in constitutional law. According to Fernando,...
They refused to meet face to face
by Aven Piramide - July 11, 2024 - 12:00am
Historians tell us that the sporting event presently called Olympic Games started sometime in 776 B.C. in ancient Greece.
Branching away from Osmeña politics
by Aven Piramide - July 4, 2024 - 12:00am
In a column I wrote early last month, I tried understanding the value of a two party system of American politics.
To see is to believe
by Aven Piramide - June 27, 2024 - 12:00am
Shortly after I sent to my Opinion Editor of The Freeman my article last Sunday entitled “OMG I See Modern Lim Ah Hongs!” the Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, declared that the very incident at the...
OMG, I see modern Lim Ah Hongs!
by Aven Piramide - June 23, 2024 - 12:00am
In my elementary school years in Candijay, Bohol, we heard of the name of Lim Ah Hong as a Chinese pirate. We even used his name in the war games we young boys played. Somehow, we were fascinated by the little tales...
A social media info on Duterte
by Aven Piramide - June 20, 2024 - 12:00am
I have been hearing about this internet baby called “social media” for quite some time now.
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