Ronnel Lim

Businessman, mayor, trustee and former president of Health Care Without Harm-Asia

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After sensationalist media had everyone worried about vaccines, now deworming will be the next casualty.

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Saw what used to be the shopping center at UPD yesterday and the food court was all disposables now.

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Susan Sontag was an obsessive list-maker, and her diaries in As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh contain vast registers of books to read, words to memorize, and films to watch.

Here are the 50 films (not in order) Susan Sontag championed as the pinnacle of cinema.

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Taiwan is unleashing again its soft power upon the Philippines and Indonesia: F4 in concert.

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Declaring a general blanket age for declaring minors responsible for crimes is bad policy. Wiser to leave it to judges to determine by appreciating the particularities of the case and the relative development of the minors.

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Pag-IBIG Fund offers promo home loan rates to make more homes affordable under President Marcos' Expanded 4PH

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The next five-planet conjunction, the heavenly sign interpreted by the Zhou’s King Wen to mean Shang Dynasty’s last king had lost the Mandate of Heaven justifying the rebellion, will be in September 2040, when all the visible planets will once again align.

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Coriander (wansoy) bolting. You don’t usually see coriander being sold in Philippine markets, so you need to plant your own if you want it for your noodles.

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Witnessing the trashing of Emily Wilson’s translation of Homer’s Odyssey on X, it is si tempting to read it again. My previous read was Lattimore’s and thinking of getting the new translation by Mendelsohn. But I have never read the Iliad though.

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Now everybody would like to visit that ancient garden at Zhongnanhai

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While everyone was riveted with the impeachment, I was renewing my driver’s license before it expires on my birthday. Passed the exam without the help of a fixer.

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Senator Drilon, alluding to the outsized influence of the chief executive owing to his control of budget release, said that if the president wants an impeachment, he will get an impeachment; if the president wants someone convicted in the impeachment trial, he will be convicted.

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Two essays stand out and I strongly recommend: 1) A Talk to the Association of Graduate School Deans in the Humanities; and 2) These Precious Days. Read These Precious Days the essay, it is about accidental friendships, imminent death and the life we may enjoy in between.

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When our commitment to democracy and majoritarian rule collides with our liberal values, which should prevail? In the long term, one cannot really survive without the other.

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Notarial offices should be required to maintain certain standards to better effect the dignity of the actual oath-taking happening there. Many just lie in their affidavits thinking it is all of no consequence given the shabby state of the office.

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When politicians have their intramurals prior to elections, media extortionists come to feed.

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@ohlistic Sounds logical to assume but i think no empirical evidence to support. Would be great if some political research be done to confirm.

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Remember that just few years past, VP Binay was demolished to pave the way for then Secretary Roxas.

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Two great short story collections from China's Ming Dynasty are available for free now on Amazon Kindle: Feng Menglong's Stories Old and New and Ling Mengzhu's Slapping the Table in Amazement .