By Alex P. Vidal “Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless.”—MOTHER TERESA INSTEAD of cursing the year 2020 as what many people do because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, let’s do the opposite: bid farewell to 2020 by saying thank you and counting
December 31, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again.”—John Breaux WE should worry no more for our relatives permanently living in the United States
December 30, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.”—Calvin Coolidge VIRGILIO will turn 65 in April 2021, and he has stopped working since March 2020 when the restaurant, where he worked in Manhattan in New York City for the last four years, stopped its operation because
December 29, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”—Charles M. Schulz HEALTH authorities have confirmed that eating a square of dark chocolate here and there isn’t necessarily bad for your health. When one square turns into an entire candy bar, however, then we might
December 28, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”—William Makepeace Thackeray WITH due respect to all fathers, I grew up believing that only mothers are willing to die—or will sacrifice their life—for their children. There may have been cases where fathers died (or will
December 24, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”—Mahatma Gandhi DID Facebook or FB, a very popular social networking service and website, sleep on its job? The following are supposed to be “few of the things
December 23, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”—Abraham Lincoln ALTHOUGH the City and Province of Iloilo are not among the poorest in the Philippines, they should nevertheless reject the absurd suggestion made by the country’s newly appointed “vaccine czar”, Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr. for the local government
December 22, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.” —Dick Gregory DESPITE the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Christmas season is still being felt and will be celebrated by Christian believers all over the world, including here in the
December 21, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.”—Aristotle UNLIKE Hollywood actor
December 19, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”—Gilbert K. Chesterton IN January this year, I lost a package containing a Bose SoundLink Revolve+ Portable and Long-Lasting Bluetooth 360 Speaker-Triple Black worth $299 (around P14,651) I ordered online when the United States Postal Service (USPS) in
December 18, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.” —Andy Goldsworthy WE will finally have the vaccines in the Big Apple. But first, we have been warned of heavy snow and freezing rain in the Big Apple on December 16 and 17 (Wednesday and Thursday) even as the forecast
December 17, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Fake news has emerged a new menace, whose purveyors proclaim themselves as journalists and taint this noble profession.”—Ram Nath Kovind IF he were alive today, Graciano Lopez Jaena, who would have turned 164 on December 18, 2020, might resent the attitude of some politicians who call legitimate journalists and
December 16, 2020