By Alex P. Vidal “The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.”—Demosthenes DID Fr. Maximo Gatela, O.P., former school director of the Angelicum School Iloilo (ASIL), overlap the power of the school board when he solely issued a closure order for ASIL on May 27? Was his immediate “resignation”
June 1, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.” — C.S. LEWIS I REGET that I failed to visit my friend, Willie Andrew Gonzalez Branum, who lived in Jaro, Iloilo City, when I went to the Philippines in 2012. Now he’s gone.
May 30, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Where human lives are concerned, time is always short, yet the world has witnessed the vast resources that governments can draw upon to rescue financial institutions deemed ‘too big to fail.’” —Pope Benedict XVI SOME people find the reason put forward behind the closure of Angelicum School Iloilo (ASIL) in Jaro,
May 29, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. “SARAP ng buhay, sarap ng buhay, ganto na lang tayo palagi ha?” (Life is good, life is good, I hope we’re like this all the time) Thus was the controversial statement recently made by Senator
May 28, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Electricity is really just organized lightning.” —George Carlin WHEN power interruptions began to annoy the residents of Iloilo City amid the coronavirus-mandated lockdown early this month, we sounded an alarm that enemies of More Electric Power and Corporation (MORE Power), particularly its rival Panay Electric Company (PECO), might use the furor
May 27, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson IT’S a silly argument that a city hall task force has focused on running after sex workers in Iloilo City after it received reports “they were demanding for food
May 26, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “We know how to treat depression, we know how to treat mental illness, and we have not had the political will in our country to make it happen.”—Rosalynn Carter WE have been hearing a lot of complaints about “gutom” (nothing to eat) and “pigado na gid” (life is so hard) as
May 25, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‘stimulus,’ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.”—Robert Kiyosaki I RECEIVED a letter signed by U.S. President Donald J. Trump dated May 1, 2020. Printed
May 23, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Protect yourself at all times. It’s what I talk to school kids and college kids about when I do my seminars. I’m not just talking about in the ring. Protect yourself at all times.”—Bernard Hopkins AS more evidence surfaced that children’s lives have been turned upside down by COVID-19 pandemic anywhere
May 22, 2020
ove the beBy Alex P. Vidal “But that is not the question. Why are we here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come.”—SAMUEL BECKETT WITH our stay-at-home guidelines
May 21, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.”—Margaret Chan THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) should refrain from using the Cybercrime Law (Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, officially recorded as Republic Act No. 10175) to run after critics of the Duterte administration. The law
May 20, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.” —Zora Neale Hurston NOW that most areas in the country have been declared as under the general community quarantine (GCQ), it’s time for the Ilonggos and
May 19, 2020