“My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.”— Mark Zuckerberg THOSE who have been a Facebook user in the United States within the past 16 years like this writer have roughly one week left to file for payment in the company’s $725 million data privacy
August 22, 2023
“The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.”— Paul Simon EFFECTIVE August 20, Sunday, New York City subway fares will jump from $2.75 to $2.90, a 5.5 percent increase as approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), a
August 21, 2023
“For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.”—Aeschylus I DON’T believe that the 264-1-3 (yes-no-abstain) votes registered by members of the House of Representatives on August 16 to expel fellow member, Arnulfo “Arnie” Teves
August 19, 2023
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”—Plato ANYBODY who will name a Filipino politician today—especially an incumbent mayor, governor, representative, senator—that is not afraid of Vice President Sara “Inday Sara” Duterte-Carpio, is either
August 18, 2023
By Alex P. Vidal “Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That’s the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.”—Thom Mayne WHAT happened during the first hearing on the defective P680-million Ungka flyover or the Iloilo flyover project by the House of Representatives Committee on Public Works and
August 17, 2023
“When hackers have access to powerful computers that use brute force hacking, they can crack almost any password; even one user with insecure access being successfully hacked can result in a major breach.”—Toomas Hendrik I WAS informed August 14 that my social media accounts (Instagram and Facebook) have been “hacked” anew.
August 16, 2023
“I reward loyalty with loyalty. I reward disloyalty with distance.”—Anonymous IF President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. “intentionally” missed out Iloilo Airport for upgrade in the 2024 budget for infrastructure development of the Department of Transportation (DOTr), he could be sending a curt message to Ilonggos, who preferred former Vice President Leni
August 15, 2023
“Where I come from we believe in an eye for an eye. That’s what we do. That’s just the way it is.”—Terence Crawford THE Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) should leave alone our fishermen. They go to the deep sea to catch fish to feed their families and provide for
August 14, 2023
“If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”—George Washington IF I say democracy is bad; communism is good, it does not make me a communist and anti democracy per se. Also, if I say Lucifer is good—my religion
August 12, 2023
“You live by the gun and knife, and die by the gun and knife.”—Joe Valachi IN the late 80’s, alyas Boy Jaguar was a known toughie in Iloilo City. His name had been implicated in a series of highway robbery incidents and illegal drug trafficking, among other crimes. I first heard
August 11, 2023
“If you can handle a nightclub audience successfully, you can handle anything.”—Judy Holliday SOMETIME in summer of 1996, a Filipino-Chinese businesswoman popularly known as “Tisay” stormed our Sun.Star Iloilo office on Rizal Street, Iloilo City to confront this writer over a story I wrote about her nightclub located on corner Delgado-Iznart
August 10, 2023
“Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.”—Robert Greene I HAVE no love lost for a suspected criminal and declared terrorist Arnie Teves, suspended congressman of the third district of Negros Oriental, but I noticed that, so far, he has the “upper hand”
August 9, 2023