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13 years ago @ Filipino Freethinkers - COMELEC Disqualifies "... · 0 replies · +8 points

BRACE YOURSELVES. The people who will actually believe this are coming.

13 years ago @ Filipino Freethinkers - How an RH Law Will Cha... · 0 replies · +2 points

Apparently ordinary citizens are obliged to depend on bureaucrats to make our decisions for us. We have no right to make personal life and health decisions for ourselves lest we go against their whims. Freedom of choice? Don't be silly, that's only for politicians.

13 years ago @ Filipino Freethinkers - Timeline of Senator So... · 0 replies · +2 points

Somebody get the senator and his staff a dictionary, so they can look up words before they use them. It will have the honor of being the very first academically accepted text inside their office.

13 years ago @ http://soonrememberedt... - Booking Through Thursd... · 0 replies · +1 points

I've read Atonement and I can totally relate to how you felt. I'm about to start Night Circus, but now I'm scared because I'm anticipating another emotional wringer. Yikes.

Here's my response: Five books that punch you in the heart

14 years ago @ Mark Reads - Site Rules / Spoiler P... · 1 reply · +3 points

Read Tigana. Please, please, please read Tigana. There's just so much poetry there, and quiet moments of beauty, and terrible moments of grief, and it will haunt you for the rest of your life. Or if you'd rather do a series next read The Fionavar Tapestry. They're by Guy Gavriel Kay. I will love you forever and forever and forever and your children's children, too.

14 years ago @ http://michaeldlockhar... - zero sum · 1 reply · +1 points

" I think maybe that I’ll be able to measure success, my version of it, by how few masks I have to own."

These words gave me a shock by crystallizing what I've always known about myself but have never been able to put into words. Good writers do that, and you're definitely one.

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