IT is Wednesday morning, February 8, as I write this, and my early morning news crawl is dominated by worrisome stories. Last month's alarming inflation rate is obviously on everyone's mind, and rightly so, as its consequences affect everyone. Agitation over the recent expansion of military cooperation with the US also figures prominently in the news today. The ongoing scandal over large-scale illegal mining in Romblon is still getting some attention, as is the persistent problem of food supply and prices, an issue that is related to inflation, but not actually as much as many might assume.

These are not only the top-of-mind stories people want to hear about and discuss, they are also all legitimately critical issues that need to be resolved. That being the case, it occurred to me that discussing an unrelated (although still important) subject might be considered neither interesting nor useful, so I think a bit of explanation is in order.

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