Adventures of Isabel

A while back, I posted on the Glorietta Mall explosion in the Philippines.The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism has just released an interesting report on the case:
Glorietta 2 blast: Bomb or gas? by Avigail OlarteWHILE the Philippine National Police (PNP) considers the case closed, other experts continue to doubt the results of the investigation on [...]

“Like many people, I started blogging out of an urgent need to procrastinate” –Alex Ross, in the New Yorker, Oct. 22

While I’ve been distracted by other things:
The Glorietta blast has been ruled, officially now, an accident. I’m still not sure what to think. And I also can’t quite help being suspicious about the [...]

An explosion Friday afternoon in a Metro Manila shopping mall left at least 9 dead and more than 100 injured. Investigations into the cause of the explosion are ongoing, but authorities have announced traces of high explosives were found on the scene and fingered the Abu Sayyaf Group as a prime suspect.
I was shocked [...]