COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEOf oaths, vows, and pledgesBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:05 AM June 24, 2022Countless newly elected officials of this benighted republic are taking their oaths before their personal choices of magistrates, government biggies, and whatnot. Of course, we do not always know the reasons for their choices, but one thing we often see in the photographs is the Holy Bible...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEPneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:06 AM June 17, 2022And other “thoughts” should complete this piece’s title.The Philippine archipelago is in the Pacific Ring of Fire, so one of our active volcanoes, Mount Bulusan in Sorsogon, is still in eruption mode and spreading ashfall on the province and beyond. Volcanologists haven’t declared it is over. Oh, but not to ignore eruptions of the “third kind,” to borrow words from ufologists,...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEA woman wrongedBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:05 AM June 10, 2022More than a year ago, when Sen. Leila de Lima was completing her fourth year in solitary confinement at the Camp Crame detention facility, I serialized in four parts my Q&A with her.There seemed to be no break in the clouds then, as the powers that be that willed her incarceration on alleged trumped...

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 COLUMNISTSHUMAN FACEVanishing French friesBy: Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnetPhilippine Daily Inquirer / 05:05 AM June 03, 2022I have not checked it out myself, but word has gotten around that orders of French fries in some fast-food joints are now limited to medium size, not large. In other words, you are allowed to eat only so much, leave some for the others. The high-calorie fast-food item is not yet, altogether,...

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