What we wish for in 2017
For 2017, we wish: Stop the killings. Stop defending what is indefensible. “Narco state”?
For 2017, we wish: Stop the killings. Stop defending what is indefensible. “Narco state”?
More than stunned, I felt betrayed—not unlike a wife whose husband had just confessed to another love—when, at our first lunch after a long time, two old and dearest friends revealed they had voted for Duterte. I had hoped they were joking; they were dead serious.
I thought I heard it wrong, but there was no one else there, trying to get past the makeshift barricade at the foot of the Edsa People Power Monument, just behind one side of the stage at last Wednesday’s rally.
It became national entertainment—the cheap kind—where men and women did not find anything reprehensible about mocking a woman.
Ernest Hemingway once said that to be a great writer, you needed “a built-in, shock-proof crap detector.”
Life goes on for Agot Isidro, who, according to close friends, has been taking in stride all the brickbats that rabid supporters of President Duterte have thrown at her for daring to call him a “psychopath” in a Facebook post.
Providentially, in spite of the campaign promise to Bongbong Marcos, President Duterte has not been shackled by the traditional value of friendship but instead invited free debate, allowing protests and deferring to the decision of the Supreme Court. We commend this display of statesmanship by the president and deeply appreciate the Supreme Court’s intervention with a status quo Ante order that prevented a scheduled Libingan event on Sept. 18 for Ferdinand Marcos.
I may have mellowed with age, but there are certain moral positions that just cannot be shaken by the passage of time. One of these is that held against the burial of someone like Ferdinand Marcos in Libingan ng mga Bayani.
Amid reports quoting President Duterte as saying that the Miss Universe pageant was not a priority of his administration and that he would not spend money on it, Tourism Secretary Wanda Teo announced on Thursday that the international beauty tilt “will be held on Jan. 30, 2017, here in the Philippines.”
President Rodrigo Duterte set a simple tone for his inaugural State of the Nation Address (Sona) to Congress by ordering the event stripped of its trademark swank and opulence, but that did not deter guests from making an effort to look memorable as they entered the House of Representatives yesterday.
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