In the Philippines, light rain that falls continuously can oftentimes turn some roads into chokepoints that slow down vehicular and pedestrian traffic. But heavy rains that pour for even just a few minutes at the wrong time—say, during high tide when the drainage systems of urban centers perform at their least optimal—can bring even the main thoroughfares of Metro Manila with heavy flooding. This is what happened last week on Edsa, the main vehicular artery of the
If you like detective stories, chances are you’ve encountered Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express.” Spoiler: someone vile ends up murdered on a train, everyone on it acts suspicious, and the detective starts to wonder, based on the victim being repeatedly stabbed with varying degrees of force, that, maybe, there was more than one murderer. Plot twist: Everybody on the train participated in the murder. The President’s eldest son (and the most junior senior deputy speaker in living memory) was prophetic indeed when he gallantly told his colleagues that the tradition of their chamber is to give a free pass
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