“There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.” – Carl Jung THE government, especially the Department of Justice (DoJ) now headed by a former politician from Cavite, should be careful in swapping verbal darts against loquacious and discredited former
June 21, 2025
“Stardom isn’t a profession, it’s an accident.” – Lauren Bacall WE’RE sure Iloilo third district Rep. Lorenz Defensor won’t be the only Ilonggo who will take an active part in the forthcoming impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio. Either in the prosecution or defense panel, there will also be personalities
June 20, 2025
“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?” – Will Rogers WE have been advocating for abolition of the Philippine Senate, the Upper Chamber of the House, since 2013 or 12 years ago. Even before the shameful
June 19, 2025
“Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.”—Joe Frazier YOU may be wondering why boxing—both professional and amateur—is fast losing credibility. You may also wonder why, as the UFC gains meteoric popularity, the faith of many fans in
June 18, 2025
“Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn’t mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn’t know about why it happened.” – Reba McEntire WE have covered in the media several air mishaps involving commercial, private and military aircrafts in the
June 17, 2025
“Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.” —Will Rogers EVEN if we make multiple bogus social media accounts or mount the loudest microphones and speakers in Calle Real to slam and vilify all those lousy politicians, there’s no way we can vanish them. Running
June 13, 2025
“We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.” – Elton John IF the senators in the
June 12, 2025
“To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.” — Chris Evert CARLOS Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner aren’t politicians and presidential wanna-bes. They aren’t magicians or Hollywood stars and
June 11, 2025
“I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.” —John Burroughs IT isn’t there anymore. Newseum was the only place in the United States, and in the whole world for that matter, where we used to find the names of our fellow Ilonggo print
June 10, 2025
“I think journalism gets measured by the quality of information it presents, not the drama or the pyrotechnics associated with us.” —Bob Woodward THE first thing that came into my mind when I visited Washington D.C. 10 years ago or sometime in June 2015, a rainy season, was to locate the Watergate
June 9, 2025
“Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.” —Martin Luther King, Jr. ALTHOUGH House Speaker Martin Romualdez remains to be arguably one of the most disliked if not hated faces
June 7, 2025
“Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.” – Floyd Mayweather, Jr. IF they have common sense and compassion, boxing organizers will not stage the Manny Pacquiao (62-8-2, 39 KOs) vs Mario Barrios (29-2-1, 18 KOs) 12-round WBC welterweight fisticuffs scheduled on July 19, 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada. But they
June 5, 2025
