Mixed Nuts

Pulitika

“Congress is the venue of choice of our President. It is unfortunate that in her venue of choice, truth has a price. And the price of truth in this house is 79.”

These were the scathing comments of Representative Edmund Reyes during his privilege speech yesterday.

I beg to disagree. In a house of law, you cannot declare truth out of melodrama and personal conviction. No one can handle the truth, nor monopolize it. This is why we have a 79-vote quota that is constitutionally justified. What good is the constitution if every underlying principle within it is violated?

Politics can be very cruel. It feels great to be an Engineer.

Sports

“The FIBA cannot accept POC’s decision to remove one group in favor of another one. As a consequence of our position on this matter, it is impossible for FIBA to entertain your request for affiliation.”
- Patrick Baumann, FIBA Secretary-General

Man, that hit hard. As a longtime basketball fanatic, smoldering controversies such as this is absolutely unwarranted. After winning the Brunei cup last week, Chot Reyes literally begged the powers-that-be to settle their differences once and for all. However, his request seemed to fall on deaf ears. The Cojuangco-led POC maintained its hard line stance while Joey Lina and his miserable BAP continue insisting their inept mandate.

Traditional Politics has no place in sports. One of them must make the supreme sacrifice.  Until that moment comes, we can only wait and cling on withered hope.

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