Apology
Arnel Pineda, the Filipino frontman of rock band Journey, apologized Tuesday to the National Historical Institute (NHI) for singing the Philippine national anthem incorrectly during the March 13 bout between Pinoy boxing champ Manny Pacquiao and Ghanaian challenger Joshua Clottey.
“I apologize for my dissatisfactory performance dun sa fight ni Pacquiao and Clottey sa Dallas, Texas, according to their standards. What can I do? I’m just doing my job… but then again hindi ako sorry kasi artistic freedom ko yon. It doesn’t make me less of a Filipino dahil sa nabago …

In France, 30% of the people are atheists.  America too, is quickly coming into terms with the same decline in believers.   At a time where belief in a transcendent God is challenged by various sectors of thinking people, theists appear to begin to lose their hold.  For most believers, whenever they are faced with hard atheists (especially philosophy professors), the challenge to prove the existence of God would shake most of the student’s belief to its core.
In usual dinner table conversations, the “you don’t need a proof, you’ve just got …

In my previous post, I detailed the reasons why viruses are generally not much of a threat than we thought it’d be.  For non-techie people, I find that diving into the details of techie stuff could at least give us a grid on the risk viruses could inflict in the credibility of our polling machine.  This however, isn’t enough.  For while viruses may not pose a threat, the next wave of woe comes in the people behind the scenes.  Dominantly, the DBA’s, the COMELEC officials, and the ‘cronies’ if you …

There has always been a constant fear in any of us for two things:

Change
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Who’d like change if the present system works? Who’d like change if the effort one has to go through would fall short in compensating the benefits of the whole thing?
Our worries against all these however, does not in any way draw us closer to the truth.  By that I mean two things.  One: It is impossible for one to know which restaurant serves the better food lest he has a sufficient amount of information from one who …