THE LAGA GALA: A Review First things first: Laga 2008 was a hit. But then, it should be. With our very Filipino nature of allowing ourselves to be automatically gripped by any display of spectacle and pageantry, there is no need to find explanation behind the people’s coming in big droves. As […]
Iraq Could Cost Approximately $12 Billion A Month According To New Study
The book by both Stiglitz and Blimes of Columbia University and Harvard respectively is titled as “The Three Billion Dollar War.” The book, the cost of the war could be possibly at $12 billion per month. Both have said that this is triple the amount that the United States government has “burned” on the war […]
Review of Sushi Go-Round & Tapas
In Washington DC, there are quite a number of places to visit if you are ever in the mood to eat sushi. While I was visiting Washington DC during a business trip back in mid-October of 2007, I decided to find a good sushi restaurant. This was attributed to the fact that I had not […]
American Misanthropes
We can now give “campus rampage” killers and their lot a name: American Misanthropes. What’s unexpectedly unsettling about them is coming to realize (a) we created them, out of a toxic pot of existentialism … and (b) these killers look an awful lot like us. by Donald Croft Brickner So-called “campus rampage” murder […]
The Coming Years
Things just may begin to appear as if we human beings are bent on a sort of mass suicide. Yet given the chance, there’s another way to voyage through prospective hard times ahead sans the adjective, grim, being highlighted. by Donald Croft Brickner Premise: Some really dark days lie ahead of us here […]
Death Encapsulated in Stone
The waning of the tombstone epitaph takes with it the chance to peek into an ingenuous era, a time when survivors seemed compelled to squeeze on tombstones the essentials of a loved one’s life and the accident or disease that carried them away. When people drowned, for example, their epitaph often described how it occurred. […]
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