“When you’re part of a World Cup, it’s always now or never.”—Kevin De Bruyne LET’S hope our regular monitoring of the ongoing The FIFA World Cup Qatar won’t be disrupted or “shortchanged” in the Twitter now that thousands of its employees—including key technical workers—have either stopped working (read: quit) or been
November 23, 2022
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?” —J. B. Priestley THE first warning
November 21, 2022
“Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.” —Elbert Hubbard UNTIL recently, I kept on receiving invitations through email and calls/text messages to work part time in Amazon; I have been asked “to report for interview” in Staten
November 19, 2022
“Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.”—Joel Osteen IN the financial world, a wrong investment will cost us a fortune. The money we want to double or grow and hope to help improve the quality of our life
November 18, 2022
“The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.”—Maimonides LIKE many people in America today, we’re also excited to see the blockbuster rematch between two famous senior citizens in modern American politics. It appears to be inevitable now that grandfather Donald Trump has officially launched his 2024
November 17, 2022
“In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”—Barack Obama I DON’T live in Arizona, but I share the euphoria people there felt when it was projected November 14 (Monday) night that one of the most dangerous merchants
November 16, 2022
“The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.” —Thomas Sowell WE’VE noticed that US Senate Majority Floor Leader Charles “Chuck” Schumer never missed the Philippine Independence Day parades in New York in the past years before the pandemic.
November 15, 2022
“One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.”—Cal Thomas IT’S interesting to cover the elections in the United States especially the just concluded 2022 Midterm Elections. I have noted some striking similarities in the way candidates behave when they lose
November 14, 2022
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”—Winston Churchill WE thought it is happening only in the Philippines. But the presence of suspected mentally deranged candidates in the elections anywhere in the world has become a reality now; and it can’t be avoided. Although most of
November 12, 2022
“Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent – a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice-that struggle continues.”—Bernie Sanders I WAS among those who was nearly convinced
November 11, 2022
“Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.”—Orson Welles I STAYED up late evening on November 8 until past midnight to chronicle the nerve-tingling senate race in the 2022 US midterm elections where
November 10, 2022
“Never underestimate the power of jealousy and the power of envy to destroy. Never underestimate that.”—Oliver Stone FORMER Philippine special envoy for diplomacy to China Ramon Tulfo described as “nakakasuka na” (it’s getting nauseous) the alleged “intervention” of newsman Roy Mabasa in the police investigation on the murder of his brother,
November 9, 2022
