Bluejackal's Finds

Usually to keep the unpredictable and fickle-minded tumblarity in stable condition, I line some posts for the day, likes interesting and inspirational posts, and reblogs some more. It fluctuates higher and lower most of the time, but good thing is it’s stable. Any thoughts on keeping your tumblarity stable?

With President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo due to step down from Malacañang next year, talk has turned to the legacies that she will be leaving. One of the legacies most often mentioned is the legacy of corruption. Ms Arroyo is perceived to be one of the most corrupt presidents the country has ever had. During her incumbency the country has sunk to the depths of corruption, such that Transparency International last year ranked the Philippines 141st in a list of 180 countries.

- Philippine Daily Inquirer Editorial: Legacy of corruption, July 28, 2009

We only have one life and we should do all we can to make it a meaningful one. Life and being human are not about making more money than we know how to spend. It is not about doing whatever it takes to get ahead of others in having a life of comfort. It is not about achieving for achievement’s sake. Life is about enjoying the beauty of a sunset, the camaraderie of a barkada, and the peace of a lazy Sunday afternoon. Most of all, life should be about giving to those who need help.

- John David Co, Youngblood: Blinded by success, Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 28, 2009

I seriously propose that the state of the Nation Address be delivered not in July, as tradition dictates, but on April 1, as sanity dictates… Maybe the day devoted to deception might have persuaded President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Monday to tell the truth. And deliver this speech:

I did not invent buying congressmen, I merely improved on it… I did not invent buying bishops, I merely paid them more… I did not invent buying the courts; the judges were for sale long before me, some of them toting price tags on their backs… I did not invent corruption, I merely perfected it… I did not invent lying in office, Marcos did it before me… I did invent stealing the vote… And of course I did invent a new reason for quarantine… Meanwhile I’ll just content myself with being sorry enough to punish myself—as I did the last time I said, “I…am…sorry…”—by sticking around. See you next SONA.

- Conrado de Quiros, Theres the Rub: State of the mind, Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 28, 2009

…Scientists have found that evolution is driving women to become ever more beautiful, while men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their caveman ancestors.

The researchers have found beautiful women have more children than their plainer counterparts and that a higher proportion of those children are female. Those daughters, once adult, also tend to be attractive and so repeat the pattern.

Over generations, the scientists argue, this has led to women becoming steadily more aesthetically pleasing, a “beauty race” that is still on. The findings have emerged from a series of studies of physical attractiveness and its links to reproductive success in humans…

via Times Online