Via my brother — who somehow gets the coolest Filipino links before I do: a blog supposedly written by the most famous daughter of a former Philippine president, not counting those horrible sisters Imee and Irene Marcos. (She describes herself in her profile as “actress slash commercial model slash talkshow host slash most talked about media personality in the philippines. “)
If anything, you non-Tagalog readers may get a nice strong, caffeinated dose of kolehiyala Taglish unleashed (you can take her out of college, but you can’t take the kolehiyala out of her):
okay, so i’m watching the other channel ha, and i am seeing geneva cruz strutting around onstage sa labas ng gma complex. baring her navel as usual. but what’s really funny is that she’s singing the charlie’s angels theme as done by destiny’s child. tapos poor her, she has no back up singers, so she makes habol the “i bought it” part. tipo bang thecarimdrivingiboughtit!theshoesimwearingiboughtit! etc. kawawa talaga.
dati naman she made gaya the video of JLo, now this? iha, konting originality naman.
Real or not, it’s just too, too funny.
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Madeline and I were planning to visit Shanghai this summer — obviously not a good time to visit China at all — and so we’re scuttling the idea. But putting SARS in perspective takes a bit of the fear off. (Note: this is a .pdf file, but it might be easier to go to the main op-ed page and scroll down to Howard Markel and Stephen Doyle’s “The Epidemic Scorecard.”) Much of the so-called underdeveloped world, for instance. has kids dying of measles — measles! — when the vaccine is (ostensibly) readily available.
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Via Mac-a-ronies, a link to Eric Alterman’s Altercation blog — jeez, Alterman should get MSNBC’s web techies to archive his stuff weekly or something! — and a letter from Santiago Zorzopulos:
It is Friday, and that means it is time to update our SotU-WMD scoreboard:
“…Saddam Hussein had biological weapons materials sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax – enough doses to kill several million people. He has not accounted for that material. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed it.”
Liters found in Iraq this week: Zero
Liters found in Iraq to date: Zero
“…Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 liters of botulinum toxin – enough to subject millions of people to death by respiratory failure. He has not accounted for that material. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed it.”
Liters found in Iraq this week: Zero
Liters found in Iraq to date: Zero
“…Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard, and VX nerve agent. In such quantities, these chemical agents also could kill untold thousands. He has not accounted for these materials. He has given no evidence that he has destroyed them.”
Tons found in Iraq this week: Zero
Tons found in Iraq to date: Zero
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Since some people asked (and I aim to please), here’s one that hasn’t been taken down by her lawyers. (Not safe for work, by the way.)
Now stop bothering me!
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Actress Claudine Barretto swears (sorry, you have to be Filipino to get this); so does Tom Brokaw (the latter link swiped from Gawker).
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