Baklas

The name of Comelec's drive to remove illegal campaign posters also means homosexuals, perhaps alluding that the election agency should be neutral.

Like mediation

Invisible

Our Daily Bread featured Plato's question: "If people didn't have to worry about being caught and punished, would they resist doing wrong?" That requires integrity.

Otherwise, there is mediation.

The Road to be traveled

The past cannot be changed.
The future is yet in your power.- Anonymous

The mediation mantra to disputants

Public Lives

Randy David's column in the Sunday Inquirer is a must read.  Yesterday, he asked "Whatever happened to the Edsa regime?" He ends with "So prone are we to moral panic that we easily give up the right to think for ourselves."

Mediation to the rescue.

Message from Noah

Centineo, i.e., for Bench:

"Are you lonely because you miss me
                             or
 Do you miss me because you're lonely?

The chicken-and-egg of relationship

Chinese Evening

Invited to the anniversary dinner of the Chinese Restaurant Association, the only thing we understood in the program were the National Anthem, the message of the former Governor of Catanduanes, and the raffle numbers. Of course, the lauriat too.

Look for common grounds to agree on in mediation.

Obstetrical Mediation

Now even childless couples can get help from surrogates.  Latest is Mar & Korina.

Everything can be facilitated it seems.

Mystified

This Iflix feature entailed the empowered group of 4 women actors to line-produce a sequel to their fantasy series.

Financial mediation!

Evolution

Our Daily Bread traced the pinata to 16th century monks in Mexico. They devised a star with 7 points to represent the 7 deadly sins. Beating the original pinata depicted the struggle against evil. The tokens that fell were to remind the converts of the rewards of faith.

Should have a sinata before mediation begins.

Mediating IIliteracy

Ronald McDonald's House Charities ReadtoLearn program conducted the posttest on an Aeta School up a hill in Subic. Teachers listed the learners' issues as absenteeism when they tag along with parents earning a living and more significantly, parents' illiteracy that does no value education nor can help their children with homework.

Adult literacy program could follow suit.

Mediating Voters

Townhall discussions among senatorial candidates are all over the networks.

At the end, the voter decides. 

Seeing to tomorrow

Our Daily Bread refers to this aeronautical term that refers to a cloudless blue sky.

Mediation aims for that, too, ensuring compliance to the Compromise Agreement.

Fake News

It's becoming so bad even the Pope has spoken against it. Says he who gets his news from a voice in the sky and a burning bush! (Saturday Night Live)

That's effort and hard to replicate.

Little House on the Prairie

Another HITS feature had an episode about  daughter Mary whose boyfriend was offered a full college scholarship out-of-town. And farm, so his father balked at the idea, of course aside from Mary. In the end, she let him go and follow his dream.

Successful mediation.

State of Liberty

When Jinggoy raised JV's hand holding a mike, they looked like a Twin Statue of Liberty.

Alas, the half-siblings reconciliation lasted only those several seconds.

That 70's Show

In one episode, the son seeks guidance from his father regarding relationships. Giving a safe advice, he retorts, "Why do you think I keep on answering your mother with a grunt?"

No room for such equivocation in mediation.

Hypocrite's Oath

Fave HITS feature MASH had one episode on the ethics of surgery. A colonel with too many casualties among his men was operated on his healthy appendix by dovish Hawkeye to literally disable him from doing further harm. Don't some back home do it for money, Hawkeye retorts.

Mediation is surely not much income-generating an activity.

Suicide Bomber

S/he survived the blast and is in captivity, so says the recent news from Mindanao. And they haven't yet explained lawless violence clearly!

No such unexplainables in mediation's Compromise Agreement.

Some Things To Remember Me By

CinemaEurope Spanish feature dealt with a woman who managed a drama group for the blind but was unable to see through the her live with her son and father.

Mediation is the seeing eye of those blinded in life's conflicts.

No Fault

Our Daily Bread featured Clarence Earl Gideon who, from his prison cell in 1962, wrote the Supreme Court to review his case. It  was tried without a lawyer whom he couldn't afford. It turned out he was really innocent and that started the state providing a public defender whenever needed.

Mediation does not need legal representation too. The mediator is the advocate for both disputants.

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Our Daily Bread's heading is a familiar one. 

Mediation sees all these kinds and facilitates their Compromise Agreement.

Decluttering

Our Daily Bread referred to Marie Kondo as today's custom in finding joy in life amidst the accumulated clutter.

Mediation is the modern way of decluttering court dockets.

The Pope in UAE

Truly Franciscan in name and practice, the Pope visited the UAE the other day. Standing side by side in their attire, the two heads of state seemed to personify Isaac and Ishmael at present.

Mediation deals with deep-seated family issues.

Kung Mei Atsoy

So painfully apt greeting from activists this Chinese New Year!

Mediation empowers disputants who want to regain, not give up, their rights.

Years Old

Put together, those are the years sold by the pending bill lowering the age of criminal responsibility.

While our foolicy-makers are getting older, more corrupt and scotfree.

The Zookeeper's Wife

This HBO film featured Nazi inhumanity even to animals.

Mediation empowers the disadvantaged.

Power Puff Girl

After some crisis in the hospital, a doctor took over Administration. Now that Human Resources is back, the good doctor cannot seem to let go of her non-medical functions, despite the orders of the nun President of the hospital.

Might need some of her anesthesia on her for the surgery.

Token

China now explains that the structure they built on our territory at West Philippine Sea will assist our citizens in emergency there.

We are so taken.