By Alex P. Vidal “The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That’s so difficult because I don’t think anyone can ever understand it. It’s not that people don’t want to understand it, but they don’t want to touch it.”—Herschel Walker WE Asians living in the United States have to deal
March 9, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.” – William S. Burroughs THE news and level of panic we heard in the Philippines, as well as the rest of Asia two months ago, are just starting in the United States in March. When the Filipinos and other citizens
March 6, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”—Henry Ford IT’S been more than a week since Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Police General Archie Franciso Gamboa threatened to relieve regional police directors who can’t stop illegal gambling operations in their respective jurisdictions. We were among those who expressed skepticism that illegal gambling, which
March 5, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “We only see what we want to see and hear what we want to hear. We don’t perceive things the way they are. We have the habit of dreaming with no basis in reality. We literally dream things up in our imaginations. Because we don’t understand something, we make an assumption
March 4, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Fear, left unchecked, can spread like a virus.” ― Lish McBride, Necromancing the Stone WHEN the Iloilo Paraw Regatta Festival 2020 finally unwraps on April 1-5, the entire planet may still not be totally safe from the rampage of the coronavirus (COVID-19). COVID-19 may still continue to grab headlines and the
March 3, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.” – Charles Horton Cooley MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power) is like a soul without a body. In order
March 2, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “He that despairs degrades God.” – OWEN FELTHAM IF we are in a high-maintenance relationship, this subject matter may interest us. Dealing with martyrs was recently cited in the survey as the second most difficult relationship. “We all have days when we feel a bit like a martyr, days when self-pity
February 28, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “If I panic, everyone else panics.”—Kobe Bryant SOMETIME in the first week of March in 2008, I “abducted” my kumpare, Lynon Cortez, from his residence in downtown Los Angeles in California and brought him straight to the Hollywood. “Maano ta di pare man? (What shall we do here, buddy?)” Cortez, a
February 27, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Without gambling, I would not exist.” – Hunter S. Thompson NO Philippine National Police (PNP) chief in the history has succeeded in totally eliminating illegal gambling operations in the country. But almost every PNP chief who served the country had made a loud public outcry against illegal gambling and vowed to
February 26, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” – Benjamin Franklin I’m ashamed of the quality of senators participating in the Senate hearing on ABS-CBN compliance with franchise terms and conditions. They lacked reliability and profundity and couldn’t accurately hit the nail right.
February 25, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.” – Theodore Roosevelt I FIRST met then 30-year-old Police Maj. Marlon Tayaba in 1998 when he was the chief of the Iloilo City Mobile Group, where I saw him frisk suspected lawbreakers even in the La Paz bridge during the
February 18, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.” – Niccolo Machiavelli WE won’t be surprised if controversial Police Lt. Col. Jovie Espenido will soon be the next target of the extra-judicial killing (EJK), a bloody method of executing criminals and
February 17, 2020