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Everybody go out and buy The Mindanao Gold Star Daily today: Thomas Hunt is the cover story . My own personal thanks to Editor in Chief Herb...

Good luck with that. Rupert Murdoch , "within the next year" plans to turn all of the online versions of his news holdings into ...

OMFG! Terrorist Mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed is going to be knocking on your door soon to borrow a bowl of sugar if the Demoncrats have...

Epril is out of town for 2 days. It's essentially the first time since September 28, 2007, that we've been apart from each other......

Ahh: Fear and ignorance . The only tool some people possess to maintain their position and profit. Businessman William Lima has created a li...

There was a point in time that my high school football team was so bad that we used to cheer completed passes as if they were actual touchdo...

I remember when I was in college 15 years ago: Buying textbooks was always a wince-inducing experience. (To make matters worse, I was a seri...

I'm quite proud of my ability to yell. I'm not talking about screaming, but town-crier type yelling. I really am probably among th...

So, let us summarize: (1) Thomas Hunt was an American lying alone in a hospital in Cagayan De Oro, Philippines... penniless and dying. (2) T...

Doberman Puppy Tyson has given up gnawing on his toys and is now chewing on a rock. I'm pretty sure that means he's going to grow up...

Tonight there was a beauty pageant in Kimaya. Kimaya is a little suburb/village (called a "Barangay" here in The Philippines) of J...

Having lived in Thailand for 5 years, there was one thing that always troubled me about Buddhism: It was a religion which maintained a stron...

I watched the replay of the Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao's fight with Ricky Hatton. It's the first time I've sat down and reall...

My stomach is still a bit buggy. It's the same kind of cramps I get when I drink a whole bunch of milk: About every 20 minutes, a wrench...

Filipino Manny Pacquiao is boxing against Ricky Hatton live right now (11:40 a.m. Sunday morning). There is a big-screen set up in the town ...

Severe 5th level political nerd alert. Feel free to scroll down past this. But for those of you who find the trifles of governance interest...

I've never liked " hate crimes laws ". I don't think that punishing people for their thoughts is wise. It complicates the ...

Josh Marshall at TPM makes an interesting observation : Republicans are now coming around to eviscerating George W. Bush for "betrayin...

President Obama will be getting to make his first Supreme Court nomination this summer... an-on-average-twice-in-a-lifetime opportunity for ...

Orcinus has a hugely interesting article up regarding the thought-and-act process that radicalized groups go through to eventually arrive a...

(Well... we'll know in a week or so... but...) The last great flu pandemic to hit the world was in 1918. That flu killed 2.5% of all peo...

An old friend from Thailand is visiting Epril: Honey Mae. She arrived today and will be leaving tomorrow to go home to her parents in Osamis...

I was going to stay out of the dirty details of the sad case of Mr. Hunt because they didn't bear directly on the survival and rescue of...

They are really racking up the hits this week. Republican columnist and author Byron York had the following to say about Obama's popula...

Listen to this kid and then I dare you to try and make the argument that he is a less-skilled vocalist than Bocelli or Pavarotti himself, or...

Puppy Tyson got a bath today, and now the kid is all wound up and ready to party. He's definitely a water dog. My new $25 phone got sto...

I was reading an old high school friend's blog today. We've kept in touch... although I suspect that this is only until he gets ba...

I was reading through the relevant statutes here , and to my surprise, Cybersex establishments are very much illegal in The Philippines. Sec...

An emergency room doctor from my work: "This patient presents having just come back from Spring Break. She says that the media tells he...

Here is Michelle Malkin complaining about the recent "Air Force One Photo Op" over Manhattan. Yes... one of the "great pundi...

Problem #1: Filipinos refuse to talk to dogs. I don't know why this is, but getting Epril and her family to talk to Tyson is impossibl...

From one of Sully's readers : I sort of think of torture like rape: It may not kill the victim, but it gives so much power to the person...

Moderate Republican Senator Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania has switched his party affiliation to Democrat . His unstated-but-obvious reasonin...

source In yet another example of poor description , The Sun Star calls the 50,000 traffic citations issued in 2008 in Cagayan De Oro a ...

We all have places that we recurrently visit in our dreams. For me, one of those places is a beach. I walk it with my father. We walk down t...

A quote posted without further comment : Every apology for torture is a denial of the separation between us and them , and between the mod...