Horrorscope

Glanced at my horoscope printed above Sudoku. It said: "Tough to keep your shirt on if you have to get something off your shirt."

It's gentler in mediation.

Lively Hoods

They're back! The PNP posse is back to hound the drugged brigade.

Internal Affairs Commission, beware of their c/omissions!

Lent Life

How ironic that during the season of Lent, Batasan passed the Death Penalty Bill, when we are looking forward to Life at Easter.

Mediation aims to ensure quality of life, if not love.

From Roach to Roa Duterte

That is Pacman's shift in coaches, according to Rep. Edsel Lagman. Ultimately, he has to be his own fighter and thinker.

So in mediation, disputants decide for themselves, not their lawyers.

Lutong Macau

That seems to be the description of De Lima's arrest order. The issuing judge came from there days earlier. Rumor has it, too, that one of the Supreme Court Justices was likewise spotted in a bank in Romania late last year in anticipation of the PET review of the Marcos electoral protest. In addition, last month a Comelec computer was stolen in Lanao Del Sur, reports the Inquirer.

PCGG, the funds are on Romanian holiday! And COMELEC, investigate the PET project!

Music Mediation

AMC feature Bound for Glory traced the life of Woody Guthrie from migrant hick to California country singer-union activist.

Recommended for Trump viewing.

Altar to an Unknown God

That was seen by St. Paul in Athens, Greece. Thus, he proclaimed Whom they should be adoring.

Mediators likewise take hints on how to bring disputants to a settlement,.

Unlikely

Goat surfing like a pro was featured in Nat Geo Wild.

In mediation, we have frenemies. But like the trainable goat, frenemies can get back to being friends.

Battle-ready

The EDSA celebration last week was a battleground in more ways than one.

Let us be prudent and heed St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians (Chapter 6), which was summarized elsewhere as thus: "Spiritual battle requires grace, not self-reliance; prayer, not fear; and wisdom, not folly."

So many Ouches for both sides.

Tame Julie Andrews

Promoting a coming show with muppets, in an interview with Stephen Colbert, Julie Andrews recalled being "pinned" by the Queen. Women and clergy are not knighted,
she stated, because they are presumed to be peaceful.

Unless in a dispute before mediation, i.e.