“Before the reward there must be labor. You plant before you harvest. You sow in tears before you reap joy.”— Ralph Ransom WE always see two kinds of tears each time the result of the Bar examination in the Philippines is released by the Supreme Court: tears of joy and frustration.
April 17, 2023
“I won’t insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.” —William F. Buckley, Jr. CRIMINALS or suspected criminals in the Philippines can run, but they can’t hide, according to President Bongbong Marcos Jr. He must be referring to small fries, the ordinary or tsinelas lawbreakers who
April 15, 2023
“Humanity is so weird. If we’re not laughing, we’re crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don’t even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don’t you think that’s weird?” ― T.J. Klune, The
April 14, 2023
“Saying a man had sex with a child is like saying a man had dinner with the pork chop.” ― Linda McCarriston FAMOUS religious, business, and political leaders are not exempted from the laws of physics and chemistry. And sexuality. As long as they are humans, they, too, can be stricken
April 13, 2023
“If our history can challenge the next wave of musicians to keep moving and changing, to keep spiritually hungry and horny, that’s what it’s all about.”— Carlos Santana WHAT if Tenzin Gyatso, also known as the 14th Dalai Lama and the Tibetan spiritual leader, really meant it when he told a
April 12, 2023
“Until the mind reflects the world, the world won’t reflect peace.” ― Abhijit Naskar WHETHER we like it or don’t, we are part of geopolitics. Even if we will “mind our own business” and ignore what is shaping up or going on, for instance, in the current conflict between Israel and Palestine;
April 11, 2023
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”— Plato THIS story I summarized from “Aristotle and the Aardvark Go to the Washington” is timely for Filipino politicians who would soon be penalized if the law against balimbing or turncoatism was passed
April 10, 2023
“The events in New York City have, obviously, been a long time coming. This is a historic day and the implications of what’s about to happen at the courthouse in Lower Manhattan will have massive implications for this country.” —Mary Trump, niece of the former president. WHEN a big story unfolded
April 6, 2023
“Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It’s absolutely unavoidable.”—Marguerite Duras I’VE noticed that some American journalists take sides when they cover political events, especially the ongoing Donald Trump donnybrook. Either they are identified as “conservative” or “liberal” press. I thought these two prominent ideologies are
April 5, 2023
“The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic – the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO.”— Jose Saramago ON March 30, 2023, the headline story of a Philippine broadsheet screamed: “PH borrows P10 billion for malnutrition reduction program.” The story says “the Philippines aims to lower malnutrition incidence in
April 4, 2023
“Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.” —Donald Trump WE expect to watch former President Donald Trump walk inside the Manhattan Criminal Court before the scheduled arraignment for at least 30 counts of criminal cases filed against him in relation to hush money payment to a
April 3, 2023
“What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”— Donald Trump WHEN it comes to indicting a former president, the Philippines is “ahead” of the United States. Before Donald Trump was indicted by the Manhattan grand jury in New York March 30
April 1, 2023
