• On a UP student carrying "fuck you Marcos" in a protest: "Ganyan ba ang edukado?" "Schooled but not educated." "What a disgrace." "Sayang lang tax namin sa inyo." | On President Duterte's swearing, insensitive humor, misogyny, etc in official and formal statements and press conferences: "Joke lang yun." "Bisaya subculture" "At least totoong tao sya. Hindi naman santo yung binoto natin basta magaling na lider siya." -- FB
  • Yung mga nag-rally kahapon, ipaglaban n'yo rin 'to! FB
  • After Ninoy Aquino was killed, I had occasion to speak with someone in the inner circle of the dictator and wife. I asked if they -- i.e., Marcoses + the gang -- talked about the daily demonstrations of hundreds of thousands taking place. She said yes; they were watching the cortege, for instance, via the Palace TV and they were shocked... "They (the opposition) have so much money! They could pay all those people to march!" My jaw nearly hit my knees. But that is how they think and so I can say that they will push for the vice-presidency because they really, really, really believe there's no passion against them, only unskilled labor for hire. Last time it took two rockets to dislodge them from the Palace. <laugh> - Ninotchka Rosca
  • What’s eating Jim Paredes? FB
  • 20170406 On Kendall Jenner's Pepsi ad: Depicted here is the most appropriate method of delivering Pepsi to the cops. On the day before Nicaragua's brutal dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle fled in July 1979, Pablo de Jesus “Bareta” Araúz lobbed a Molotov cocktail made from a glass Pepsi bottle at one of the last national guard fortresses. After the Communist Sandinistas took power, the image became the defining symbol of the Revolution—a reviled dictator toppled by a ragtag army of denim clad fighters wielding makeshift weapons. Eagerly disseminated by the Sandinistas, the photograph, titled "Molotov Man," soon became ubiquitous throughout Nicaragua; appearing on matchbooks, T-shirts, billboards, and brochures. -- See Sirantos Fotopoulos FB
  • 20170404 On the chemical attack in Syria - See Jaber Nyrabeah FB
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