AMONG ED, any one?
“Good people are resented for their virtue. And because they make everyone around them feel even worse about themselves, they need to be taught a lesson ” (DOGVILLE, Lars von Trier) Have we reached the apex of misery that we hate good people all around us? Good people…
MY OWN BIG QUEZON SKY
Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime…. Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand…. Whoever interferes with equal rights…
THE GENIUS OF MEDIOCRITY
Work ethic is absent in the Filipino psyche. We hear of the enviable work ethics of our fellow Asians. The Singaporeans work as if tomorrow is the end of the world. The Europeans come up with the best literature, scientific theory, music, poems, and designs. The…
NAPURNADA, GID
A presidential candidate needs all the allies that he can get. An ally personifies a bloc, an influence, or in command of a machinery or system that translates into quantification of numerical numbers overwhelmingly or preponderatingly necessary in electing the…
HOW BASTOS IS BOY VERZO
HOW BASTOS IS BOY VERZO? By all indications, it looks like Philippine demography in terms of intellectual pursuit is broken into three categories: the sachet class, the cerebral branch, and the creative techies. ERAP WAS CONVICTED OF “BLUNDER” When the graft court…
SENATE BULLIES
There’s talk on the street; it sounds so familiar Great expectations, everybody’s watching you People you meet, they all seem to know you Even your old friends treat you like you’re something new (Eagles, New Kid In Town) We have now an interesting composition of the…
FILLET QUEZON
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD It was near the end of his term in 1998 when then Congressman Bobby Tanada introduced the bill proposing the division of Quezon. That came in the heels of his parting of ways with his congressional seatmate and gubernatorial candidate in 1998,…
THE LAME DUCK IS A MINER
He spoke too soon. Manny Villar is a marked man when he said right after the SONA that the President is a spent force, a lame duck. While she made some reassuring words that she won’t be seeking reelection as the Constitution bars it, she was heard saying in jest…
A FATHER’S REDEMPTION
After two decades, we have seemingly outgrown our juvenile fascination with entertainment celebrities. We barred the likes of Tito Sotto and Lito Lapid from the Senate and Makati City Hall, respectively. Goma and Machete are sulking with their trophy wives. It looks…