Juan L. Mercado

Mercado: ‘Neanderthal brutality’

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:05:05 +0800

“MURDERING 42 women, journalists and passersby is ‘Neanderthal brutality’ as Sen. Miriam Santiago notes,” said our daughter, a UN officer in Jerusalem.

Mercado: Mortality as sterilizer

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:28:39 +0800

“THE vice-presidency is as useful as a cow’s fifth teat,” Harry Truman snorted when friends pressed him to seek the post.

Mercado: Ultimate perversion

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:38:11 +0800

“OUTRAGEOUS, unacceptable. And unbelievable.”

Mercado: Daily installment hunger

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:24:34 +0800

MEDIA is crammed with political pap. So, who listens to the whimpers from the 7th National Nutrition Survey?

Mercado: ‘No erasures list’

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:34:12 +0800

THE wife and I dub it: “No Erasures List”--names of departed kith and kin jotted down for inclusion in the traditional All Souls’ Day Mass.

Mercado: Street corner ‘tutorial’

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:59:24 +0800

THE kids watched as I tightened a shoe lace along one of Cagayan de Oro city’s poorer but remarkably clean-swept barangays. A tutorial on urban sociology was the last thing I expected.

Mercado: Politics of the personal

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:53:36 +0800

(That’s the title of an insightful paper on why Sen. Benigno Aquino III leapt to the front of “presidentiables.” The author is social anthropologist Dr. Melba Padilla Maggay.

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Mercado: Bizarre preference

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:35:23 +0800

“CAN Cebu City cope with "Ondoy" typhoons?” asked the column, “Floods, Gravity--and Walruses.”

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Mercado: Inherited bomb

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:57:17 +0800

WILL residents of Cebu City and environs, like our Metro Manila cousins, slosh in a world of typhoon muck and submerged homes? Look at chilling parallels Storm Ondoy offered.

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Mercado: ‘Three inevitables’

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:44:26 +0800

IN 2010, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, Francis “Chiz” Escudero, Gilberto “Gibo” Teoodoro or Manuel Villar may be president.

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