“Having said goodbye, the vice-president will now be subjected to lingchi: political death by a thousand cuts”
I am no fan of Taylor Swift, but when I was searching for the Chinese noun that means death by a thousand cuts, I chanced upon a Taylor Swift song titled precisely that, and describes “saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts.”
Death by a thousand cuts, “lingchi” in celestial patois, was a...
“Having said goodbye, the vice-president will now be subjected to lingchi: political death by a thousand cuts”
I am no fan of Taylor Swift, but when I was searching for the Chinese noun that means death by a thousand cuts, I chanced upon a Taylor Swift song titled precisely that, and describes “saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts.”
Death by a thousand cuts, “lingchi” in celestial patois, was a...
“As is their usual wont, all the oligarch-owned parties, NP, NPC, NUP, swear allegiance, if temporary, to the newly-minted Bagong Pilipinas ruling coalition”
Turncoatism has...
(Part One)
“What Diosdado Macapagal started as a new phenomenon in 1962 turned into a ‘balimbing’ culture, the new normal in Philippine politics”
IN 1961, Liberal...
