By Alex P. Vidal “There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.”-Bill Bowerman AS I write this article, a major snowstorm—the worst in five years—was barreling toward the northeast cities, including New York City and Boston, as reported by the National Weather Services (NWS). When we are told that the storm
February 2, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.” – Richard M. Nixon NO Filipino politician will give up his post to show remorse for a wrongdoing while in public office. So far, only the Japanese are known to commit seppuku or “cutting the belly” which
February 1, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “We believe that transparency is needed to create trust, and it’s also needed to create a dialogue.”—Julie Sweet IF ever President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and President Rodrigo R. Duterte will talk over the phone for the first time since Mr. Biden became the 46th President of the United
January 30, 2021
belt By Alex P. Vidal “Incompetence is a better explanation than conspiracy in most human activity.”—Peter Bergen I HAVE warned some friends in the Philippines to ignore and not to share the videos being circulated mostly through the social media’s private message by merchants of conspiracy theory. Most decent and educated people in
January 29, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.”—KOBE BRYANT I JUST arrived in New York City’s Flushing district from Connecticut when I received calls
January 27, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.”—Margaret Chan THE coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) halted all major cultural, religious, business, political, academic, and sports events in 2020, except the amazing Iloilo Dinagyang Festival, now also known as the “Iloilo Dinagyang Digital 2021”, in
January 26, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.”—Leonard Nimoy SOME Filipinos in a community in Queens, New York City who support the proposed measure by the Biden administration to give legal status to
January 25, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.”—Barack Obama NOT all Filipinos in America are enthusiastic and supportive of U.S. President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s plan to grant legal status to an estimated 11 million undocumented aliens or illegal
January 23, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.”—Christopher Lasch I DIDN’T stop monitoring the entire inauguration program of the incoming administration in the United States in Washington D.C. since early morning January 20 until President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
January 22, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.” — George Sanders By the time this article comes out, outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump must be on his way
January 21, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.” — Lyndon B. Johnson THERE is no doubt that Joseph “Joe” Robinette Biden Jr. will become the most powerful man in the world and the oldest president in
January 20, 2021
By Alex P. Vidal “The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.”—J. R. R. Tolkien TRUMP loyalist Luis Lomuntad, leader of Filipinos in Queens, New York City who believes the rightful winner in the November 3, 2020 presidential election was President Donald Trump,
January 19, 2021