Makibeki

This new battlecry was heard during the recent Pride protest in Manila. They were demanding cleansing of the government.

Take That

Kate Middleton has avenged Diana's death. It is said that she has "killed the market for royal paparazzi pictures" by singlehandedly taking her brood's candid shots by her own camera.

Loving God

First and foremost is the way to love others better.

Line of Fire

It is always a place of honor. (Alejandro, 1987)

Such is mediation.

Gone with the Wind

Watched its digitalized version in time with Black Lives Matter. In one scene, Scarlett suggests eloping with her married first love, "There isn't anything holding us here." To which Wilkes replies, "Nothing but honor."

Just like today, too.

Hasegawa

Japanese researcher on dementia became one of his test cases himself. In an NHK docu, he documents his daily activities and thoughts, trying to live in a nursing home and going back home, still giving talks but starting with a military song and explaining why.

He "has egawa" cut out for him.

Job's Comforter

It "has come to describe how NOT to act around a suffering person." Notes from The Student Bible

A mediator is sometimes like one.

Wealth

According to the Navajo Indians, it is defined by how many songs you know. 

Parents

"They all lie to their children for their own good," says 'Everyone Loves Raymond' dad Frank. Question is for
whose good?

What Really Matters

"Westerners have watches. Africans have time." Os Guinness, quoting an African proverb in his book Impossible People

Adversity

It doesn't build character. It reveals it. (American novelist James Lane Allen)

The English Game

Football started as usual among the Etonians et al. Then the workingclass got into it but needed to be paid while at the greens, unlike their wealthy self- employed counterparts. Unfortunately, this was against the rule and it took one Etonian to change that and the history of the game.

SANA

That is Senior Adviser on National Affairs- Covid 19 Dr. Leachon who was asked to resign for being up front with DOH mediocrity on data handling, among other failures.

Terror of a Bill

The Anti-Terrorism Bill set to be signed by DU30 anytime now is instead sowing what it is supposed to prevent.  What it lacks, aside from the constitutional safeguards, is the provision for deradicalization.

Former ARRM leader Hataman from Basilan says that the Bill we copied from other countries like Malaysia leaves out this essential element of converting the mindset of supposed terrorists while in jail. Otherwise, as what had happened, the terrorists converted their jailers. Or they really do not aim to jail terrorists but only political opponents.

Disaster-Related Deaths

Ishii Mieko advocates ensuring that survivors in gyms do not succumb to other causes of death other than the original calamity- lack of privacy, depression, lack of movement and communication, among others.

Doctors and Preachers

In "Sweet Magnolias," they were deemed similar in telling us what we already know we must not do.

Oppo Research

Not of this gadget company but of opposition parties in Netflix "Race for the White House." From Andrew Jackson to Bill Clinton, learn the tricks of the trade.

Pandemic Waste

With all the personal protective equipment usage, there will be a new mountain of waste after this is all over.

In Dependence

Apa Ongpin had a truly insightful study on DU30. As a populist ex-mayor, he has to keep his image as a fighter. Hence, he is always confronting person/s in speeches. Do dirty.

Irony

How would you like to consult a Dra. Calvario caught on a tv weekend show?

After Life

In Netflix, a widower pines for his wife. When friends suggest going out and doing things, he clarifies missing  doing nothing with her.

Fishing

In "The United Plates of America" featuring Seattle, a  fishing buff describes it as hours of peace and calm cut by a few moments of disturbance.

Maya

A small wisp of a woman in Bosnia-Herzegovina overcame a childhood of bullying by seeking others in need. She started by becoming a Red Cross volunteer. She was interviewed by world news recently.

What I'd Give

Healthworkers stand to receive P 100, 000. 00 after getting severely infected by the Covid19 virus. If they can still stand.

Otherwise, their family gets a million if they succumb to the virus.

Choice between pneumonia and yonder.

Not Agri

In an online forum with Senator Kiko Pangilinan, a panelist bewailed the usual negative connotation attached to agriculture:

1. Farmers and fisherfolk are poor and uneducated.
2. When one does poorly, "nangamote."
3. An unfortunate ending leads to the " kankungan."

From Venus

Leave it to women to run countries well, especially during pandemic.

German Chancellor Merkel, a chemist, has even included cash for electronic cars in their country's stimulus package. In New Zealand, half of the population is targeted to receive sanitary products to keep them in school. 

Pag (If)

Maayos ang sistema (the system is set well)
May disiplina (there is discipline)

Malinaw ang plano (the plan is clear)
Susunod ang tao (the people will follow)

Atty. Chel Diokno

POLO Trump

The President of Law and Order poses with a Bible outside a locked down church, after protesters were gassed  to clear his path.

Point of View

Writing for Our Daily Bread, Elisa Morgan quoted a friend as saying, "I love the ocean. It moves so I don't have to."

Worse Jailer

For violating the Anti-Liquor Ban and the Quarantine Pass Ordinance, Ronald Campo was caught in the act of escaping arrest and consequently mauled by the Cavite PNP Provincial Director PCol Marlon Santos.