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Name-hyphenation! Valerie doesn’t like it, but Amy and I plan to hyphenate our surnames. Imagine the fun people will have taking messages from the “Koslowski-Ordovezas!” Even without hyphenation, though, Filipino tradition dictates the woman keeping her maiden name as a middle name, and passing it down as a middle name to the children. Plus, I’ve […]
Hey, Washington, it’s National Police Week, and you know what that means? That’s right: off-duty cops come from around the country to party hard all weekend, then roam through downtown DC drunk as skunks, bawling, brawling, and generally making noisy, boisterous fools of themselves. Last year they were drag racing up and down North Capitol […]
DC had a bit of evacuation action yesterday, when a single-engine Cessna wandered into the DC no-fly zone and triggered alarms in the Capitol, House and Senate office buildings, and the White House. People were evacuated, fighter jets and helicopters were scrambled, warning flares were fired, the plane was diverted, two confused amateur pilots were […]
It’s actually sort of hard to photograph Pandora yawning. She’s very camera-conscious, and her yawns, though wide as any cat’s yawns, are often faster than the camera’s ability to catch the moment. I got lucky this time, though. (Pandora Yawning uploaded by brownpau.)
Legalism 101: in which Arnold, a Christian ex-Seventh Day Adventist, meets up with his old Adventist friends. (Update: Life Outside Adventism, a followup epistle from Arnold.) I remember reading some Adventist literature in a Wordstar document a long time ago, and it was, at the start, good and solid Christian doctrine on sin, grace, salvation, […]
So they went and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone and setting a guard. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment. The gospels scantly narrate the events of Black Saturday with the knowledge and joy of the resurrection as a foregone conclusion; but today I tried to imagine what that Sabbath […]
It’s come to my attention that the Vatican has finally gotten down to saying something about The Da Vinci Code. Somewhat late and needless, I think, considering that the issue is already in the process of being beaten to death. The most frequent defense of Da Vinci Code I’ve seen is that “it’s just a […]
Kudos to kababayan Accordion Guy on his commitment to the barong for his much anticipated hitch-up. The barong is also my outfit of choice for classy coat-and-tie events; there’s no formalwear quite like it: cool, breathable, easy to wear, without any complicated knots or color schemes to worry about. As an added bonus, the people […]
Some people think Star Wars is about Luke Skywalker and the battle of the Rebel Alliance against the evil forces of the Dark Side and the Empire. Others think that the Star Wars saga is the story of Anakin “Darth Vader” Skywalker, his fall to the Dark Side, and his eventual redemption at the hands […]
Death and chaos land the Philippines back in the world headlines: first the kids killed by contaminated cassava, then the bloody Abu Sayyaf jailbreak attempt. Key quote from the Philstar editorial: Throughout the day the nation had to listen to the demands of people who had just killed three jail guards and were on trial […]