Brigada Hudikatura

They have one for schools, why not for justice? To clean up the spider webs in court dockets, sweep the dust off case files, vacuum decisions out of judges and clear the jails of unwanted non-criminals.

Mediation has been doing so, fast-tracking compromise agreements between the "presumptive " litigants.

Leni in the Palace

Coconut, i.e.  Leni has more coconut than her predecessor. That edifice was rented at half a million a month! She could spend that amount for satellite offices in the provinces, the incoming VP says.

There will be less outgoing expenses this time.

Federer

Similar to the tennis champ, would federalism be better too? Or best?

Or all the more entrench the local dynasties and their very public private armies?

Freedom of Expletive

Duterte is becoming a bane in the news of television stations with his colorful language.

Will he abolish the MTRCB next?

1+1= 10

This was the answer of one child to his teacher in a foreign film caught on Cinema World. When the teacher asked him why, he replied that his father and mother had 10 children!

Duterte doesn't like that. How to mediate reproduction?

Beyond Turncoatism

That is because a coat has only two sides. Politicians , on the other hand, change "parties" after every national election.

Perhaps, we can just have the administration party and the anti-administration party. The former we can call present, with presents.

Ducking Problems

From B. C. comic strip: "What's your special? The duck. How was the duck prepared? He didn't take it well."

Facing problems is mediation's way.

Angry Birds' Eye

For lack of any other choice, watched The Angry Birds movie on senior citizen pass. It was witty -"Kevin Bacon on eggs"; their version of anger management class and other human endeavors. The pigs' invasion on the island of the birds was reminiscent of similar events in history, too.

It also brought out the best in the Angry Bird. That's sublimation, a weakness turned to something positive. Mediation does that, too.

Concerted Efforts

The open-air concert at MOA this weekend left 5 dead. Another one in west Austria resulted in 3 casualties after a man open fired at the audience after a spat with his girlfriend, as reported by Reuters.

Perhaps concert tickets should have a warning: Dangerous to health.

Mediating Sides

Duterte will have his hands full holding the left and the right-ists in his Cabinet.

Let us see how he mediates.

Don't Beware Creditors Bearing Gifts

Thais obviously don't have Trojan blood. In Bangkok, Reuters report that credit company employees go to the houses of debtors with oranges and mangosteen. Just not lemons, and not thrown like tomatoes.

Cheaper than filing a court case, it is a good mediation strategy!

Mediating Golden Girls

Over fifty years since high school, we had developed our own decision-making skills and some. Now, as we prepare for our golden jubilee next year, one can imagine the clash of opinions regarding plans. Can't blame others to remain in the woodwork!

Fight or flight or fright? Laughter is the best mediation.

No Pews

Chanced upon a foreign film in Cinema World, where the churchpeople decided to clear their place of worship of the pews. Instead, they had a concert/dancing venue. This is also done in my neighboring Las Pinas' St. Joseph Parish with its Bamboo Organ Festival every February.

Mixed-use of churches is a sign of greater openness to other forms of worship. So is mediation, of justice.

Luz Change

Loose change is coming - from taxi drivers, Duterte vows. But change has also to be enlightened, not just for the head- or tail of it.

The choice of a Villar scion of real estate holdings, for Public Works and Highways is like dropping a shark into an aquarium. Better to retain non-COI (conflict of interest) Secretary Singson, in that case. So in mediation, should doubts be eliminated.

Robot Monk

A monk thought of a robot to spread their teachings and answer the questions of especially the youth.

That's keeping up with the children, like mediation is, with the times.

Lost in Tension

Had a good heart over breakfast. The commentator over the biblical cum classical music radio station narrated a tense call of an expectant father to his wife's ob-gyne, "Her contractions are getting more frequent, Dr." to which the latter asked, "Is this her first child?" The reply: "This is her husband!"

In mediation, too, we have to know where both sides are coming from.

Quick Thinking

With e-lections, come all the tales of cheating, imagined, paranoid, or not. A Baby Blues comic strip showed an example of logic shortcut. The father said, "I go to work to make money, which we spend on food, which you put on plates, where the kids push it around, and then it gets thrown away. It would be more efficient if I just put my paycheck in the trash." The wife retorted,"And no cooking? I'm listening..."

Mediation, in a non-perverted way, goes over the hurts and pains in a relationship to get to the resolution of the conflict.

Serviciong Totoo

My maternal grandfather was fluent in spoken and written Spanish. Hence, my mother would speak to us with a smattering of the language. Servicio, to us, was the potty, so the GMA tagline is not really very pleasant, especially if you're eating.

Indeed, some news and its reporters can be trashy, too.

Mini-glo

The 12-year old daughter of Duterte with his present partner ominously reminds us of Gloria in the Palace.

Hopefully, her father's brashness hasn't rubbed off too much on her. Monkey see, ...

Shades of Guilt

Psychology calls it the defense mechanism of projection. To protect our ego, we tend to criticize others, usually what we ourselves are guilty of. Guess it's easy to recognize the familiar. So it is with BBMarcos accusing the pious widow Leni of cheating in the elections. 1986 part II!

Be careful of what you accuse of.

Political Scions

The political sons also rise- in social media, just about the same time their parents were conceding to each other.

Let the sharing begin!

Mediating Spoilers

Not those car accessories, but still hangers-on this time, over political winners. They is already in-fighting reported between two factions surrounding Duterte.

To supporters belong the posts! Only makes sense in physics.

Spidermen @ Bilibid

No, they are not using their webs to get out of prison. Rather, using their spare time to get some spare change from gambling by pitting these crawlers against each other.

The justice system has to speed up before the prisoners gather more vices. In the first place, should they be there in the first place, or could mediation have settled their cases in pretrial?

Mediating Mercy Killing

Caught a British film re four male friends who take one of them who is terminally ill, on one last trip to his favorite bay. There, the cancer-striken friend enlists their help to drown himself. Two friends refuse, while the third is emotionally- blackmailed to agree, as the latter finally admits that he is with the sister of the ill friend.

How to mediate between faith and pain?

Surveying Pre-Election Cheating

Are surveys omens of election cheating? In this season of paranoia, "surveyors" were caught on cam doing their work in a fast food restaurant.  Fast work, too?

Election mediators, you are in for a season of "cheatingunia" next week!

Unroyal

With the Rolling Stones and other singers running after Donald Trump's campaign use of their songs, this past movie director showed the way out of royalties. When they couldn't use Mickey Mouse in a movie, they called on Jerry Mouse.

White lying out of intellectual property rights.

A Dying Killing Business

Thanks to the younger generation, Koreans seem to be losing their taste for dog meat according to an AFP report. Farms raising man's besties specifically for consumption are closing, due also to the mediation of the US-based Humane Society International.

Lucky beasts!

Dapat Biteng-in

Paul Biteng of the Comeleak typifies the arrogant characters in video games where he must have spent hours. Life imitating lice.

Mediation has seen these cases of guilt by association and dangerous liaison.

Scattering Dirt

What's in a name? Mayor Dudirty's Chair on the Commission on Human Rights was his fellow- Bedan law graduate Alberto Sipaco, Jr. Some kicker! Wonder what they committed.

By a long stretch, you are judged by the company you keep.

The Whistleblower

Not the local indie version, this 2nd Avenue movie was the true story of the United Nations Peacekeepers in Bosnia. There some of them preyed on especially the women they were supposed to protect. Con- tractors got them into prostitution and its related violence and drugs.

Who mediates between the peacekeepers and their victims?

My Boyfriend's Dog

This Diva movie was about a woman who seemed to retain dogs more than her boyfriends, three in a row, in fact. In the process, she gathered three canines, c/o her two- legged friends. The bonus was getting to know the owner of the dog shop.

Some women are more/ less lucky, gathering children from relationships, married or not.