tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-241184842009-11-09T10:36:59.743+08:00"I have often wondered at the extreme fecundity of the press, and how it comes to pass that so many heads, on which nature seemed to have inflicted the curse of barrenness, should teem with voluminous productions." - Washington Irving, Sketch Bookepistemologist; meta/theoretician; fictionist; teaching at (secret); grad from DECL UP-Dil; bdate in May 1982http://www.blogger.com/profile/07070130266160614633noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24118484.post-43063223062254813322009-10-20T12:10:00.002+08:002009-10-20T12:22:32.887+08:00

I spoke in a daily abroad 4 years ago against d CBCP blocking the Sex Education Program. Like the Reproductive Health Bill, it was deemed by Church morally objectionable. They consider the modules "pornographic" and vulgar endorsements of premarital sex, maintaining that all talk of sex must stay restricted between children and parents. Illustrations, for instance, of use of a condom (which

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BDalisay's "Propaganda (1)"NOTE TO BD: lest my comment be split in 2, i'll split it myself hee hee. PART 1:hee hee welcome sir =) i'm intrigued though by the comment of Norm. Hi, Norm. I hope u wouldn't mind my asking, but since u've gone quite a good stretch implying knowledge of critical thought, may I ask you (and I shall, merely, as an inquisitive teacher, writer, theoretician) what notion of

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ADDED NOTE (comment-proper beneath this note):Comment posted on RC's blogHmm, I'd like to help clear up something, ie why Ricky, in my view, called it "preemptive"--it's been lost in the raging wash of pro- and anti-reactions.Like a friend said, the moment they gave out the Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger, it had already been cheapened. Kissinger, much unlike Obama in politics, was the author,

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In response to RCarandang's show.Hi, Ricky. I've been lucky enough to catch your 10:30 show for the past two days. The discussions to do with riverbank communities intrigue me much. While I do agree that the migrating poor shouldn't be allowed to settle too close to ill-managed waterways, I also recognize problems in completing quick flood-remedies like clearing up the banks without addressing

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The religious are sheer virtuosos at dangling perdition before those they differ with—sad to say, right this very moment, before opportunistic candidates for president and senator. The subject at the heart of this essay is not religion per se but the conflict generated by a certain democracy that seeks to institutionalize cultural and religious freedom at the level not just of speech and exchange

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dear BD (in response to your new blog entry)On a better day, in a better mood, I'd probably not react to this, but here is the best day and best mood for reactions =) I always tell my students that often the onus of understanding rests, for the most part, on the reader. If we always whine of hardships in comprehension then we won't stand a chance at growth. Reading troubles vary from case to case

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Please find out for yourselves how the steaks and barbecues at dinner are produced. I'm all for eating meat, with meat being a food-chain requirement (though thanks to a project begun at Oxford there are now ways to produce meat without making animals suffer). After watching this footage, I also suggest that you look up videos taken of dogs raised in Mills for selling in boutiques. It will serve

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She's the World Number 1 figure skater, holding the 207-point record (the first to surpass the 200 mark total for short-program and long-program scores combined). A very young genius. Witnessing pure excellence achieved by KIM at the most distant exceptional levels has me in sobs of sheer happiness. Terrific, only terrific. I missed the 2009 World Championships held in March. This video reminds

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Response to Mr Carandang's "Let them eat cake"hey ricky... i hope you don't mind. i hope you consider this tiny tiny insight. i love it that people are rallied round a distaste for GMA's, well, tasty diet. but there's a bigger question escaping critics.i do appreciate, that for a change, the point in your criticism is an allegation of stealing (pilfering a measly million for a dinner, with

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For CAA(My take, with questions of social status and status projections well enough aside)Now, I see why those far, who love us, hoard gifts. There's a wistfulness in which one implodes. The care and affection unexpressed, unrelieved, is hurtfully pent-up. All one can do to cope with the absence is to let off what's built up when yearning for presence. I sympathize with those who can't manage

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It took me a long, long time before deciding to entertain, at first, the idea of fielding questions, then of guiding anyone who might need "furbishing" and "furnishing" with ideas and the basics of critical thought, then of actually teaching people as in the regular (virtual) instruction setups. But while I do relish polemic, ideas, theorizing, and metatheorizing, my love for all those,

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This is in response to the kind and generous Mr DalisayFrom A GP for a Bypasshee hee, hang in there, mr dalisay. yes, we outgrow our teachers, don't we? to some degree... okay, a tremendous one, even, but never so that I, personally, would wish dismissed all teachings FROM OLD =) my faves from my gen are c hau, k tuvera and c abad (who i believe are the very gems of the present age, not because

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(A hero, artist and Filipino for true freedom and democracy)Please read "Freedom from Want" by Carlos Bulosan, as published in the Saturday Evening Post on March 6, 1943.To know more about Bulosan, pls read "Dear D/Dear Carlos" by Nikki Alfar on Our Own Voice and Bulosan's "All the Conspirators" published in 1998 by Anvil and in 2005 by Washington University Press, both editions with critical

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I have often enough been dismayed at National Artist picks especially for Literature. But art, whatever the benchmark for it, is meant to be distinguished from others of similar forms. Not all paintings, drawings, fiction, poetry, architecture, essays, films, music make the cut as "Art," which at the most rudimentary, is textured by techniques, the guile or cunning with which ideas, beliefs,

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From Twitter.Com/BeatrixPGMy only guides are syllogism, induction, compassion and generous sense of fairness. So should yours be, readers.As is easy to note from my previous writings, I like Cory and Ninoy. Why? Because she tried her utmost, despite an elite base that sought at most restoration and fought off shifts that were fully democratic. But for geniuses to say it's MORE THAN ENOUGH that

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@mlq3 i remember feeling so relieved that someone like u, however i differ w/ u occasionally, has this time the chance to teach on television (even if cable tv for the better-off like us). i believe in free speech even if that's the reason charlatans find themselves on the air. but when the goal of speech is to educate (such as yours has been), we cannot trifle with that business; we must build

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please watch this video in full. there's so much about ninoy little discussed in tv documentaries and most other commemorative celebrations of his life. this over an hour long speech gives us tremendous insight into much of what happened during the marcos reign and into ninoy himself as the political visionary. he talked about the run up to the declaration of martial law, the dissolution of the

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woooow. i was able to sit through the whole hour of The Buzz today. kris aquino, daughter of president cory, detailed in an interview with boy abunda her time caring for her mother for the last two weeks. i was very much dismayed at her revelation of some of the events that transpired while her mother was indisposed. it is terrible that malacanang made the effort to strip cory of the security due

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rains... rains... cory passed on at 3 am today... =( i'm actually in tears... i liked her best for the purity of her heart though i always felt anguished by the massacre of the labor day protesters in her time, the persistent corruption in the army under her command, and her being a mum member of a family of greedy heartless landlords (issues that typified not her leadership, testified not to her

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hello, mr bocobo. (students, pls refer to Look Before Lunging: Read, think, study for yourself and Worry me to sobs: Care for a bit of education)i was able to catch a fraction of an Explainer show that sought to tackle the Zelaya issue. of course for all your guest was cracked up to be (a sociologist, blah blah) he was unable to illumine the difference between the philippine and the honduras

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It puzzles me (though perhaps it shouldn't anymore) that regard for the Philippine-American war had been relatively shy and tight-lipped--as though, by design, thrifty, stingy, or demure. I view it of course in contrast to the emphases taxed on the Spanish, the Japanese, the Marcoses, in cargoes of essays, plays, films, fiction, poetry, music, not least of all paintings, some even sculpture....

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Please check out a very important article on landgrabbing for food by fellow blogger caffeine sparks.

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If you must disagree with them, if you must take a stance that differs with them, or from their own, I hope you do so after digesting their Ideas. If you must love or hate Marx, Marxism, Socialism, for instance (as is voguish to do), I suggest that you go over his Books and Ideas first. Quit adopting positions and making enormous determinations just on the say-so of garrulous folks. If you must

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When 'keeping things plain' means limiting things and readers unreasonablyby beatrixpg(Pls turn next to Look Before Lunging: Read, Study, Think for Yourself)It's no use tarrying in zones of view at once comforting and threatening. Students of the past--the eager ones, at least--throve in times of intellectual "ordeal." Now, I sense a change so drastic as to worry and weary me in scholarship. A

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