[Prints and Traces] The Pork Barrel Menace
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
For what really is this goddamn pork barrel? Why is this a modus vivendi in our legislative system, first of all?
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
For what really is this goddamn pork barrel? Why is this a modus vivendi in our legislative system, first of all?
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
My childhood years were filled with random dreams and not-so-intentional glories. But they come as happenstances with childhood drives and urge to excel in everything -- from shatung to basketball, to high jump, to gardening to handicrafts making. And to give fleshly meaning to parents’ and mentors’ exhortation in the cliché Burn your midnight candle!
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Indeed, it sounds like a frivolity for Mr. Virgilio Almario to advance a proposal that is meant to change the spelling of Pilipinas toFilipinas. Of all the urgent matters and issues that need to be addressed, here comes a very inconsequential proposition that wouldn’t at all touch the daily lives of our people.
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Who can be honest? Rather, who need to be honest and be featured in the news? It’s the poor! Never the wealthy and powerful! They have no need of the glory of publicity or a reward for honesty. Their position in society is more than rewarding enough!
By DON J. PAGUSARA
Davao Today
Liar, because the speaker is an incorrigible liar and the promises are lies. Dream, because the people are made to hope and expect “a kingdom come” or “a state of better living” or “a more comfortable life,” or at least a more “humane earthly existence.” Which never ever comes. Not today, not tomorrow, not until the end of time!