By: Reyshimar Arguelles Modern democracy is a peculiar thing, a machine that guzzles nonsense nectar and spews out the most horrible scum you will ever see wearing suits and gowns. Because underneath the civility that our lawmakers show thrives a tyrannical disposition that is sure to doom us all. We can attribute this demise to
September 17, 2019
By: Reyshimar Arguelles It is everyone’s desire to be loved, and being on Facebook comes off as an attempt at greater relevance. Thus, it gives an almost carnal form of gratification to wake up to comments and likes from people we either know closely or treat with utter distaste. Either way, we’re not as alone
September 12, 2019
By: Reyshimar Arguelles WITH President Duterte ordering the ouster of Nicanor Faeldon as chief of the Bureau of Corrections, we are made to agree that this government is working to preserve the dignity of public service. Faeldon has been entangled in a controversy that uncovered the weaknesses of the good conduct time allowance or GCTA
September 10, 2019
By: Reyshimar Arguelles WE ALL love rice, so much so that we sometimes regard the Unli-Rice concept as the single most important Filipino innovation in recent memory. And that’s saying a lot, considering how much we pride ourselves as a food basket – a reputation we used to carry back when we had the capacity
September 5, 2019
By: Reyshimar Arguelles The Bureau of Corrections had scheduled to release more than 2,000 inmates through the controversial good conduct time allowance law, a decision that was met with widespread condemnation that had everybody wanting to oust the agency’s chief Nicanor Faeldon from the civil service for good. From the outset, Faeldon should’ve spared himself
September 3, 2019
By: Reyshimar Arguelles Given the events that are happening across the globe, we should be building fallout shelters and stocking up on canned tuna by now. With suicidal leaders who refuse to acknowledge their potential to doom us all with their crazy ideas, intense paranoia and pessimism should be commonplace. Brazil currently has a president
August 29, 2019
By: Reyshimar Arguelles LAST week, everyone was talking about convicted ex-mayor Antonio Sanchez of Calauan, Laguna. There’s no reason not to. This degenerate Satan spawn deserves all the public hate he has drawn since he was given a maximum of 360 years of prison time for the murder of University of the Philippines-Los Baños students
August 27, 2019
By: Reyshimar Arguelles ONE can only wonder which planet Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa comes from. To his mind, activism and radicalism are one and the same thing, never mind the fact that political activism is part and parcel of the right for students to express their sentiments on how things are run. You could
August 22, 2019
By: Reyshimar Arguelles Understanding the history of dissent in the Philippines is fruitless without mention of the First Quarter Storm, a period of protests that demonstrated the political and social value of student activism in the country. It came at a time when the Marcos administration, already having “earned” a second term in the 1969
August 20, 2019
By: Reyshimar Arguelles FOR THE state, any form of dissent is welcome, so long as it does not promote violence or incite rebellion. The freedom of expression is respected, but only if it keeps the status quo intact. We can see now how protest actions have been unfairly reduced into being activities that carry no
August 15, 2019
By: Reyshimar Arguelles DISSENT is healthy if its purpose is to uphold justice and demand an accounting from oppressors. Behind this rationale is an acknowledgment of the risks that make dissenting more like a death sentence to the dissenter. There’s a price to pay for having ideals. But a true revolutionary would risk everything to
August 13, 2019
By: Reyshimar Arguelles WHEN Mortal Kombat was first released 27 years ago, it shocked the supposedly morally-upright men and women of the US congress with its realistic depictions of gore. The video game was notorious for its Fatality system allowing players to finish off their opponents in the most brutal manner. One example of a
August 8, 2019