“You cannot open a book without learning something.”—Confucius FOR purchasing it in Amazon before March 15, 2023, I got a free delivery of the book, The Big Idea, Collected: 6 Revolutionary Ideas That Changed The World by Paul Strathern. For those interested, the new paperback copy containing 640 pages is worth
March 3, 2023
“And they were not ashamed.” —Genesis WE are always ashamed since time immemorial. For instance, we are ashamed that we have an imperfect constitution, thus we always agitate to amend it every time a new administration takes over—and we always fail to get the nod of the people. Now that the
March 2, 2023
“Being prepared to die is one of the great secrets of living.” —George Lincoln Rockwell I WOULD like to share a very interesting biography about a little-known financial advisor based in the City of Irvine in Orange County, California whose story offers a lesson about living and dying. Ross Anderson was
March 1, 2023
“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.”— Stephen Hawking I WAS watching a 1935 film Sylvia Scarlett starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant Sunday (February 26) afternoon on TCM (Turner Classic
February 28, 2023
“All I want to do, ever, is play chess.”— Bobby Fischer I FIRST read an article about Wesley So in the magazine section of Manila Bulletin in 2003. He was 10 years old and tagged as a “prodigy” or highly talented child from Bacoor, Cavite. Nothing earthshaking about the article, which
February 27, 2023
“I despise the Lottery. There’s less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.”— Brian May EVEN if some of them doubt the authenticity of the Facebook account purportedly owned by the Pinoy who reportedly won the biggest lottery prize
February 25, 2023
“When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same.” —Shane Koyczan THE dwindling of pork supply in the province of Iloilo may not be good for business as hog farming represents an integral part of the broader industry that entails the rearing, butchering,
February 24, 2023
“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.” – Aristotle A SELF-HELP book copyrighted in 2000 promises to multiply our mental power with “simple and enjoyable” exercises scientifically designed to make us smarter, more creative, more intuitive, and more successful in achieving our goals. Super Brain Power author Jean
February 23, 2023
“To me, the Internet is a big scam.”— Ry Cooder ILONGGOS are really oozing with talent. In almost all areas in life, there’s an Ilonggo making waves and excelling. In recent memory, media didn’t run out of interesting tidbits and stories extolling and celebrating the exploits of Ilonggos anywhere in real
February 22, 2023
“The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can’t be right all the time. He doesn’t bark only when he sees or smells something that’s dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.”— Dan Rather SOME readers may be wondering
February 21, 2023
“My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.”— Wilma Rudolph MOTHERS or Pinoy nanays who come to the rescue of their embattled children (mostly sons) will always take the bullet to save them. Like Judy Araneta-Roxas, who insisted her son,
February 20, 2023
“Ambition is the last refuse of the failure.”—Oscar Wilde IT looks like the proposed constitutional amendments being worked out by some excited and ambitious lawmakers will fail anew. If it didn’t snowball in Iloilo, it will not snowball anywhere in the entire archipelago despite the grand lobbying of the proponents. The
February 18, 2023
