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"Halo-halo" is a Filipino summer snack. The name literally means "a miscellany" because of the different ingredients that get into it. Crushed ice, milk, sugar are poured over a delicious mixture of beans, fruit slices, nata de coco and sometimes topped with other sweets. Today's blogs are like... Sign in to see full entry.

His is going to be a tough act to follow. And his pontificate is truly worth remembering. Sign in to see full entry.

Lawmakers rush one legislation to prevent the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. Legislators in the US do this. Would our multi-millionaire legislators* do this for a Juan dela Cruz? Link: Wired News. Court-appointed doctors say Schiavo is in a persistent vegetative state. She did not leave... Sign in to see full entry.

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The sudden rise of blogging as a major contender in the media wars is connected with Dan Rather. This author says that that is not the whole picture... Link: Guardian Unlimited | UK Latest | Who killed Dan Rather?. It's reflexive, irresistible: When Dan Rather says goodbye on Wednesday night, some... Sign in to see full entry.

Today's blogs are mostly about the Pope and his successor. In Papal Succession: Can The Pope Resign?, I point out that "resign" is an idea that is foreign to the topic of Papal succession. The word used is "abdication." But although there have been six Popes who have abdicated, no one has done so... Sign in to see full entry.

Here are some of the recent blogs that you may have missed: Built For Happiness That Will Not Last. Is my commentary on an article I read from Times. The article shows that scientifically, we are not built for happiness that last. To the person of faith, this merely shows that we are made for a... Sign in to see full entry.

The Pope is back in the hospital. Italy's Panorama counts 159 days that the Pope has spent in the hospital before his readmission today. This is his eleventh time as a patient. The first ten are listed thus: 1. 29 February 1944. 24 year old Karol Wojtyla was hit by a van as he was going out of a... Sign in to see full entry.

New ventures? Get paid to blog. Jason Kottke had a job, but he quit it in favor of blogging. Link: Guardian Unlimited | Newsblog | Paid to blog. t's something many bloggers must dream of - quitting work to blog full time. Veteran blogger Jason Kottke has decided to stop being a web designer take on... Sign in to see full entry.

> The Buzz Machine's Jeff Jarvis propositions Times honcho: let bloggers and journalists work together. The object, according to Jeff Jarvis is to revitalize journalism. But the Times won't take this sitting down. After all, it is the Times that provides bloggers with materials for commentaries.... Sign in to see full entry.