“Until someone is prepared to lay out the systemic problem, we will simply go through cycles of finding corruption, finding a scapegoat, eliminating the scapegoat, and relaxing until we find the next scandal.” — Newt Gingrich FILIPINOS never ran out of scandals and controversies. From golden arinola (bedpan) scandal that nearly resulted
August 22, 2025
“Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.” —Ray Davies SWIFT justice? Yes, if there is such thing. Prolong investigations? No way. We aren’t convinced anymore especially
August 21, 2025
“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.” —Karl Kraus IT is often said that “if there is no money, there is no honey”, or simply “no money, no honey.” It essentially means that without financial
August 16, 2025
“The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.” —Miguel Syjuco THE decision of the executive branch not to propose funding for the Ayuda para sa Kapong ang Kita Program (AKAP)
August 15, 2025
“Let’s hope that if ever courageous media networks or newspapers will expose the involvement of lawmakers, or any public official for that matter, in this gargantuan scandal and anomaly of epic proportions, no solon, mayor, governor, or even senator will storm their radio stations and editorial offices like what we experienced
August 14, 2025
“The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.” – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. THE better term to describe the impeachment case filed against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio should be “mummified.” Since it has been “archived” in the senate, mummified should
August 9, 2025
“All the food we eat-every grain of rice and kernel of corn-has been genetically modified. None of it was here before mankind learned to cultivate crops. The question isn’t whether our food has been modified, but how.” – Michael Specter WHY only 60 days and not six months or one year and
August 8, 2025
“We’ve got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?” — Lee Iacocca THIS time, the air quality in a small city in the Third World is “better” than the air quality in two major American states. Because of the Canadian wildfires, it is now “safer” to inhale
August 7, 2025
“Some people don’t like long bus rides, but I love them. There’s sort of a sense of solitude.” – Sam Hunt IT seems the Marcos Jr. administration has the penchant of reviving public transportation systems that have long been dead if not considered obsolete. And we have been consistently opposing it
August 2, 2025
“Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.” —Alexander Woollcott IT seems the Makati City-based Games and Amusement Board (GAB) has shot itself in the foot by “sanctioning” and “supervising” the aborted duel between Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Gen. Nicolas Torre III and Davao City Vice Mayor Baste Duterte at
July 28, 2025
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” – Abraham Lincoln WE are saying this again for the umpteenth time: we should have started planting trees massively at least 90 to 100 years ago. We mean, a no-nonsense tree-planting activity
July 26, 2025
“A superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.” —Confucius WHAT most Ilonggos wanted to hear after the President’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) on July 28 would be the SOPA (State of the Province Address), SOCA (State of the City Address), SOMA (State of the Municipality
July 25, 2025