“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.” — Sammy Davis, Jr. ONE of the best “techniques” and principles I have maintained over the years as a major leverage to my “staying power” in community journalism is I DON’T COMMIT, or I have never committed to any politician or
April 9, 2024
“I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.”— Venus Williams THEY’RE saying the rumored Marie Louise “Liza” Araneta Marcos-Julienne “Jamjam” Baronda tandem for Iloilo City lone district representative and city mayor is only an April Fools’ Day canard when it recently circulated in the social media and the grapevine. Since
April 6, 2024
“An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.”— Mae West UNLIKE the first marching orders of Police Brigadier General Jack Wanky, Police Regional Office (PRO) 6 acting regional director, for cops to run after illegal gambling operations when he recently assumed office, Wanky’s boss, the 30th chief of the Philippine
April 5, 2024
“Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies; history has no place for them.”— Norodom Sihanouk A 74-YEAR-OLD Filipino-American woman who has been reportedly under the radar of the federal government for “misusing, abusing, and exploiting the loophole” in a New York state health program for several years, has “fled” to Mindanao
April 4, 2024
“It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense.” —MARK TWAIN WHAT happened in Iloilo City won’t happen in Iloilo Province. This was the assurance made before the Holy Week by Iloilo governor Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr., 54, referring to the unfortunate split recently between erstwhile political sweethearts, Iloilo City
April 3, 2024
“My biggest piece of advice when it comes to bullying is to have an open communication about it.”—Lizzie Velasquez I HAVE warned a visiting female friend, Matutina (not the now 80-year-old former actress who starred in the “John & Marsha” comedy sitcom in the 70’s), from Mandaluyong City not to stroll
April 1, 2024
“The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.”— William Hazlitt GRAFTERS in government as well as thieves, dishonest individuals, philanderers, and scam artists in society should not wait for the Holy Week to repent for their sins. All of us sinners can
March 27, 2024
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”— Abraham Lincoln EVEN if the whole universe will declare “in support of the Philippines” each time our resupply vessels are blasted by water cannons from the
March 26, 2024
“I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.”— William Howard Taft WE won’t speculate until hearing Iloilo City lone district Rep. Julienne “Jamjam” Baronda (National Unity Party) make an official announcement herself whether she will seek
March 25, 2024
“Speak when you are angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.” —Laurence J. Peter LIKE the Filipino teacher in the now deactivated viral TikTok clip, some principals and college deans also lose their tempers and act like Haiti gangsters inside the classrooms and faculty meetings from time to
March 23, 2024
