Juan L. Mercado

 

 

 

 

Articles by Juan L. Mercado

01/30/2012 - "Peak"--What?
01/28/2012 - Festering Sore
01/28/2012 - Shattered Halos
01/22/2012 - Rewind Button
01/21/2012 - Tug Of War
01/17/2012 - Sunset Glory
01/13/2012 - Ramrod Warrior
01/07/2012 - Book Burning 2012
01/03/2012 - New Year Resolve
12/31/2011 - Grandkid's Grey Hair
12/27/2011 - Massacre Replays
12/23/2011 - This Day
12/16/2011 - Louis XIV Syndrome
12/07/2011 - A Clutch Of Carols
12/06/2011 - A Great Wind Blowing?
12/02/2011 - Partial Redemption
11/28/2011 - Burnishing "Bona Fides"
11/26/2011 - Hanging Up A Star
11/19/2011 - Time Of Visitation Spurned
11/12/2011 - Capial Or Small
11/10/2011 - Splendor In The Grass
11/08/2011 - Replaying Aesop
11/05/2011 - No Perfect World
10/28/2011 - A Future Not Our Own
10/24/2011 - Eye Of Todays' Storm
10/18/2011 - Macabre Political Chip?
10/15/2011 - Going Quietly Into The Night
10/14/2011 - Rhetoric and the Supreme Court
10/13/2011 - Confeti Reporting
10/11/2011 - Wobbly Linchpin
09/30/2011 - Looking Beyond Labels
09/27/2011 - Age Crimp
09/19/2011 - Pivotal Concern
09/15/2011 - Austere Laurels
09/12/2011 - New Sheriffs
09/08/2011 - Breaking Poverty Webs
09/05/2011 - Maternity Death Road
09/02/2011 - Toxic Legacy
08/29/2011 - Wisecracks As Revolts
08/18/2011 - Stark "Math"
08/12/2011 - Amnesia Prescription
08/11/2011 - Serial Jackpots
08/06/2011 - The Wife's Gripes
08/05/2011 - Murly Prospect
08/01/2011 - Mystery Figure
07/30/2011 - Mindset Of Abuse
07/26/2011 - Rehashed Reoporting
07/25/2011 - Flypaper Effect
07/23/2011 - Slaughter Of The Innocents:2
07/15/2011 - Dirty Finger Drill
07/07/2011 - First Collision
07/03/2011 - Joke Of The Century
07/03/2011 - Silenced Songbirds
06/24/2011 - Early Tipping Points
06/23/2011 - Feathered Desaparecidos
06/20/2011 - Flak Jackets
06/19/2011 - Betrayal's Timeline
06/12/2011 - Shattered Myth
06/09/2011 - Squandered Harvests
06/06/2011 - Schizo Borders
06/02/2011 - Genetic Bankruptcy
05/30/2011 - Narrowing The Disconnect
05/24/2011 - A Name Game?
05/16/2011 - When Deeds Speak
05/06/2011 - Reading Beyond Labels
05/06/2011 - Murder Or Self Defense
05/03/2011 - Going Into The Night
04/30/2011 - Neither Score Card Or Audit
04/29/2011 - Tyrany of The Immediate
04/24/2011 - Elusice Fragrance
04/18/2011 - "To Read" List
04/13/2011 - Go Tell The Judge
04/09/2011 - Remembrancer
04/05/2011 - Rose Or Rhose?
04/03/2011 - 1000 Uses
03/29/2011 - Toga Or No Toga
03/25/2011 - No Yellow Flowers
03/21/2011 - Spotless Hands
03/17/2011 - If This Day Be The Last?
03/16/2011 - "Sure Thing"
03/15/2011 - Reading List Entry
03/13/2011 - Betrayal And Impeachment
03/07/2011 - Smudged Foreheads
03/06/2011 - Inferno's Highway?
03/02/2011 - Sense Of Entitlement
03/01/2011 - Geography Of Grief And Cruelty
02/25/2011 - Sound Chamber
02/24/2011 - Judicial "Yoyo"
02/22/2011 - History's Epitaph
02/19/2011 - Schizophrenic Puzzle
02/19/2011 - Oslo Paradox
02/14/2011 - Papyrus Wisecrack
02/07/2011 - Democratic "Red Ink"
02/04/2011 - Tutorial For A Kid
02/04/2011 - Burnished Steel
01/28/2011 - Correct Nameplates
01/26/2011 - Backyard Face
01/20/2011 - Beyond Flower Petals
01/17/2011 - Ignored Counsel
01/14/2011 - Blame Fixing Antidote
01/10/2011 - News For Our Cook
01/08/2011 - Millionaire for the Asking
01/07/2011 - The Right Questions
01/03/2011 - Rouges' Damascus Moment?
12/30/2010 - 2011 As Time Tunnel
12/26/2010 - Herod's Swine
12/24/2010 - First Christmas Wikileaks?
12/19/2010 - Gifts
12/13/2010 - Giving's Price Tag
12/06/2010 - Multi-Tiered Racket?
12/03/2010 - The Polite Word
11/29/2010 - Balance As Gift
11/25/2010 - Francesco Who?
11/22/2010 - New Can Of Worms?
11/19/2010 - Canto Choir
11/19/2010 - Yesterday's Bloodstains
11/15/2010 - Larger Prison?
11/07/2010 - Holding Back The Night
11/02/2010 - No Free Drinks
10/28/2010 - The Only Bridge
10/18/2010 - End Of Finger Wagging?
10/16/2010 - Dazzling "Skill"--- Or Rot?
10/15/2010 - Kindergarten 101 On Hunger
10/11/2010 - Reversing Course
10/08/2010 - Seared Gadflies
10/04/2010 - Between Rock And Whirlpool
10/03/2010 - Gouging A Nation's Eyes
09/27/2010 - Contrast Tutorials
09/25/2010 - Bad, Mediocre or Brilliant
09/20/2010 - Recovering A Lost Decade
09/18/2010 - Persistent Unease
09/13/2010 - Pandora's "Desaparecidos"
09/10/2010 - Bladed Fury
09/06/2010 - Profound Deprivation
09/03/2010 - Prolific Mother of Folly
08/31/2010 - Once More With Feeling
08/20/2010 - Policy "Lockjaw"
08/15/2010 - Curiouser and Curiouser
08/14/2010 - Handcuffing Minda: 2
08/13/2010 - Shifting Tropics
08/07/2010 - Justified Jitters?
08/01/2010 - Damascus Moment
07/30/2010 - Slumbering Law
07/24/2010 - Blindsided Ombudsman?
07/23/2010 - This Far Away Look
07/19/2010 - Shekel Power
07/16/2010 - When Deferred Hope Stirs
07/12/2010 - When Wish Fathers Thought
07/10/2010 - Four Gravestone Lines
07/05/2010 - Geography's Lottery
07/04/2010 - Sisyphus, Cities And The Court
07/02/2010 - Worst Enemy
06/25/2010 - No Bast Decir Adios
06/21/2010 - Year Of Horror
06/20/2010 - Warlord or Builder
06/16/2010 - Sowing Dragon's Teeth
06/15/2010 - Invisible School Absentees
06/10/2010 - Vanished Songbirds
06/09/2010 - Stashing That Wristband
06/08/2010 - Roll Call Slaughter
06/05/2010 - Mocking Midnight Bells
05/31/2010 - A History Of Pain
05/27/2010 - It's Deja Vu All Over Again
05/25/2010 - Guns For Hire Saloon
05/23/2010 - Extra Barongs
05/17/2010 - Atilla Rides Again
05/16/2010 - A Rocy Transition
05/12/2010 - End Of The Beginning
05/11/2010 - Morning After Sysiphus
05/07/2010 - One Grating Word
05/06/2010 - A Culture Of Arugment
05/03/2010 - SHAPE UP KID!
04/30/2010 - It’s De Ja Vu All Over Again
04/28/2010 - Are You Nuts?
04/26/2010 - "MAD" Round 2
04/24/2010 - "Hello Garci" Clone
04/23/2010 - Time Tunnel
04/19/2010 - Playing With Fire
04/12/2010 - The Only Option
04/07/2010 - Bolted Window
03/31/2010 - Thirty Holy Thursdays
03/29/2010 - Unused Bully Pulpit
03/26/2010 - Guarded Hopes
03/23/2010 - Four Wind Justices
03/20/2010 - Core Message
03/18/2010 - Nation Building on IOU's
03/16/2010 - A Wink For More Of The Same
03/13/2010 - Exorcising Ghosts
03/11/2010 - Improbably Hero
03/09/2010 - Evasive Candidates
03/02/2010 - Restless Corpses?
02/28/2010 - Medal Warfare
02/22/2010 - Swapping Prisms
02/21/2010 - Dry Wells Scramble
02/17/2010 - Dirty Finger
02/13/2010 - Chuckle And Weep
02/09/2010 - Cobbling Street Signs
01/28/2010 - Worm's Eye View
01/22/2010 - Reversing The Skid Into Disaster
01/14/2010 - Visas of last resort
01/10/2010 - U-Turn Price Tag
01/06/2010 - Aphrodisiac Issue
12/31/2009 - Grace In A Garbage Dump
12/30/2009 - New Year's Eve "Common Dream"
12/27/2009 - Seeting Fury
12/26/2009 - Christmas Morning Tutorial
12/23/2009 - Lady In Hand-Me-Down
12/20/2009 - Motorcycle Backslide
12/18/2009 - Bittersweet Carols
12/12/2009 - “WANTED� AD
12/10/2009 - Whimpered Excuse
12/07/2009 - Twisting In The Wind Earlier
12/04/2009 - Advent Images Of Christmases Past
12/03/2009 - Three Precious Things
11/30/2009 - Khmer Rouge Clone
11/27/2009 - Whose SOB?
11/27/2009 - Neanderthal Brutality
11/24/2009 - Mortality As Sterilizer
11/23/2009 - Grinding Bastards Down
11/18/2009 - Adrenalin Surge
11/16/2009 - Stark Treadmill
11/13/2009 - Beatifying the Crooks
11/10/2009 - Skills Bleed
11/09/2009 - By Any Other Name
11/06/2009 - Hunger By Installment
11/04/2009 - Historic Window
10/29/2009 - No Erasures List
10/24/2009 - Street Corner "Tutorial"
10/21/2009 - A Nation Of Dimwits
10/19/2009 - Resurgent Hope
10/15/2009 - Ear To The Ground
10/15/2009 - A Politics of the Personal
10/14/2009 - Unseen Damage
10/05/2009 - Floods, Gravity and Walruses
10/03/2009 - Bitter Math
10/01/2009 - Let A Thousand Cellphones Bloom: 2
09/22/2009 - A Look Back
09/22/2009 - Three Inevitables
09/18/2009 - Hoary Question
09/17/2009 - Spin For Sale
09/13/2009 - Diamonds And Red Shoes
09/12/2009 - A Lethal Vacuum
09/09/2009 - Fumigating Malacañang
09/06/2009 - Marriage Ads and Robots
09/02/2009 - Tap Roots
08/19/2009 - Lazarus At the Gate
08/14/2009 - Unique Vocation?
08/13/2009 - Two Modern Parables?
08/10/2009 - Deciphering Signs
08/07/2009 - Letters on Cory
08/05/2009 - Austere Laurels
08/03/2009 - Two Towers
07/27/2009 - 180 Degree Wanderers
07/27/2009 - Obsolete Image
07/25/2009 - Stark Irony
07/12/2009 - Perpetual Feast
07/10/2009 - Rehab By Amnesia
07/07/2009 - Shimmering Paradox
07/02/2009 - Sphinx Country
06/30/2009 - Blank Checks
06/22/2009 - "Playing Our Song"
06/22/2009 - Pissing on Our Graves
06/21/2009 - Dishonor Roll
06/19/2009 - Hey, Dad!
06/17/2009 - Street Corner Abusrditires
06/16/2009 - Thresholds
06/10/2009 - "Right Names"
06/10/2009 - Whipping Boy
06/01/2009 - Gags from the Past
05/28/2009 - A Republic Of Letters
05/23/2009 - Erap's Second Round Farce
05/20/2009 - Pitch Dark
05/18/2009 - Nuthouse
05/15/2009 - Zero, Zilch, Nada
05/14/2009 - Timeline
05/06/2009 - Bum Check
05/03/2009 - No Other Side
05/01/2009 - Persistent Joke
04/27/2009 - Scapegoats
04/23/2009 - Your Light
04/23/2009 - Embedding Perversion
04/20/2009 - Stampede's End?
04/19/2009 - Political Striptease
04/02/2009 - Surreal Silence
04/02/2009 - Palm Sunday - and the basics
03/25/2009 - Paradoxes' Promises
03/13/2009 - Strange Virus
03/09/2009 - Unique Distinction
03/02/2009 - Good Cop, Bad Cop
02/20/2009 - A Deficit Of Decency
02/18/2009 - Spitting Image
02/15/2009 - Inhaling Flattery
02/06/2009 - Reluctant Balikbayans
02/02/2009 - Judas' Chromosomes
01/31/2009 - Fanning A Firestorm
01/28/2009 - Dehumanized Rot
01/26/2009 - Cascading Idiocy
01/20/2009 - First Global President
01/17/2009 - Power Without People
01/13/2009 - Then and Now
01/07/2009 - Lucid Plea, Bum Joke
01/06/2009 - Morning After Chills
12/24/2008 - The Face of Hunger
12/18/2008 - Padlocked Hearts
12/17/2008 - Handcuffing Minds
12/04/2008 - Misplaced Hopes
12/03/2008 - Short Supply
11/29/2008 - Grand Memory For Forgetting
11/27/2008 - Confusing Ali Baba with Thieves
11/19/2008 - Prayer Without Heart
11/18/2008 - Standing In The Breach
11/10/2008 - RIZAL’S TURTLE AND “JOC-JOC”
11/08/2008 - Point of No Return
11/05/2008 - Dodging Change
11/02/2008 - Deferred Hope
10/31/2008 - Beyond Mortal Dust
10/30/2008 - The Communion of Saints
10/28/2008 - Today's Hemorrhage
10/23/2008 - Zapping Caraboas
10/22/2008 - Unblocking the Message
10/08/2008 - Comfortable Handcuffs
10/06/2008 - Moonlighting and Tapeworms
10/01/2008 - Restoring Hope
09/23/2008 - Weekend Breathers
09/06/2008 - Sleaze Level
09/01/2008 - Diverse Voices
08/29/2008 - Replaying "Minamata"?
08/27/2008 - Wrecking The Sponge
08/18/2008 - Piranah Feeding Frenzy
08/15/2008 - Why This Yawn
08/14/2008 - Juda Odds
08/12/2008 - Beating Ploughshares into Swords
08/09/2008 - Of Songs And Awards
07/31/2008 - Memo To Their Honors
07/30/2008 - Screaming Silences
07/25/2008 - Survival Kit
07/21/2008 - Kids In The Wings
07/18/2008 - Chasing After The Wind
07/17/2008 - Leaving Square One
07/09/2008 - The Fourth Mountain
07/05/2008 - Don't Tread On The Ducks
07/03/2008 - Sauce For Gander And Goose
07/01/2008 - Scoffed At Lessons
06/27/2008 - Scoffin At History's Lessons
06/25/2008 - From Regret to Hope
06/24/2008 - Cold Sweat
06/19/2008 - Teetering On Borders
06/19/2008 - Different Typhoon
06/09/2008 - Two Shams
06/04/2008 - No Ears?
06/02/2008 - Hair Without Pain
05/29/2008 - Austere Laurels
05/26/2008 - Ghosts of Murders Past
05/23/2008 - The Litmus Test
05/19/2008 - Where Vultures Gather
05/15/2008 - Malign Rapacity
05/12/2008 - Thieves for Children
05/10/2008 - The Poverty of Greed
05/08/2008 - The Skills Crunch
05/08/2008 - Aquino Papers-Revisited
04/24/2008 - 2010 Dividend
04/21/2008 - Shattered Forecasts
04/20/2008 - Flawed Headcount
04/16/2008 - Saffron Sunsets
04/09/2008 - A Hocked Future
04/03/2008 - Sapping "Inner" Resources
03/30/2008 - Slipping Below the Threshold
03/26/2008 - Democratic Contagion
03/25/2008 - Calibrated "Rehab"
03/25/2008 - Good Friday People
03/19/2008 - Crashing Into Taj Mahal
03/06/2008 - Curtains for Goldilocks
02/26/2008 - Fond Illusion
02/23/2008 - Strange Tango
02/22/2008 - Blink and Hinge Factor
02/19/2008 - Exile Yardstick
02/16/2008 - Shattering Stereotypes
02/11/2008 - 'Shanghai" Policy
02/10/2008 - Who Hit The Replay Button
02/07/2008 - The Giant Next Door
02/05/2008 - Just Before Midnight
01/30/2008 - Thinking Different Instead of Small
01/28/2008 - Quagmire Rule
01/27/2008 - Memory Holes
01/16/2008 - Piranha Frenzy
01/14/2008 - “IF IT FLIES, IT DIES”
01/11/2008 - Shuffling Backward Into The Future
01/10/2008 - REVERSING PROFLIGACY'S LEGACY
01/08/2008 - POISONED WELLS
01/03/2008 - FEW CLOSURES
12/13/2007 - Slaughter of the birds
11/21/2007 - Stitching Sheets of Loose Sand
11/20/2007 - Chewing One's Words
11/15/2007 - Dumping Tin Halos
11/10/2007 - Maids Seen --- And Heard
11/08/2007 - Unplugged Nations
11/01/2007 - Yesterday's Men
10/30/2007 - Justice as Circus
10/23/2007 - Political Viagra
10/18/2007 - A Resonant Voice
01/27/2007 - Firing Watchmen into the Night
01/02/2007 - Springs of Hope
12/14/2006 - The "Magis" from Congress
12/10/2006 - Old-Fashioned Greed
12/06/2006 - A Hush-Hush Problem
11/25/2006 - One Questions
11/06/2006 - A "Sea Ethic"
11/02/2006 - Feedback Time
10/29/2006 - Split Level Halloween
10/06/2006 - Borrowing Against Tomorrow
10/02/2006 - Blank Checks
09/21/2006 - Enduring Lesson
03/21/2006 - Daily "Snap" Elections
03/05/2006 - Space for Grace
02/21/2006 - Grand Memory
11/11/2005 - Scarecrow Law
10/20/2005 - No Other Tribute
09/20/2005 - Backward into the Future
09/15/2005 - Fire Sale
09/13/2005 - Embedded Ignorance Paralysis
08/25/2005 - Governance by Bile
08/23/2005 - Our Solitary Boast
08/05/2005 - Taxi Cab Tutorial
07/29/2005 - State Funerals and Poverty of the Spirit
07/26/2005 - A Surfeit of Saviors?
07/19/2005 - Who will be Alibaba?
07/12/2005 - Quiet Rage
07/05/2005 - Recurring Lunacy
07/05/2005 - No Guaranteed Happy Endings?
06/28/2005 - Is Bashing Heads the Only Option?