“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.”—Adolf Hitler THE improvised or handmade gun 41-year-old Tetsuya Yamagami used to kill former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 67, was equivalent to a “paltik” pistol made mostly in Danao, Cebu in the Philippines. But
July 11, 2022
“Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.”—Paracelsus THE word “investigation” is always fatal. If your business is food and is “being investigated” for possible contamination of chemical or pesticide, your goose is cooked. A bakeshop, a cakeshop, a
July 9, 2022
“Sir, I am no sycophant or whorshipper of power anywhere.”—Benjamin F. Wade. THE Filipinos are perhaps the only people in the world who have the penchant to play a sipsip (sycophantic) role each time a new national leadership takes over. Never mind if they end up like stupid and, in the
July 8, 2022
“Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.” – Lao Tzu I BELIEVE in God, but I had three friends in the Philippines who had been “arguing” with me against the existence of the Divine Providence. And they have all died. No one was buried in the cemetery. “If
July 5, 2022
“Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.” – Aristotle AS of this writing, news in the United States about former President Donald Trump’s “upcoming” announcement to run again in the 2024 presidential election, has been buzzing. If ever he will run again and win in 2024, Philippine President Ferdinand
July 4, 2022
“Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.” —Marshall McLuhan I HAD the privilege to celebrate the Canada Day (July 1) in British Columbia for two consecutive years in 2010 and 2011. The celebration commemorated the date when Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and
July 2, 2022
“When the public’s right to know is threatened, and when the rights of free speech and free press are at risk, all of the other liberties we hold dear are endangered.”—Christopher Dodd AS a Filipino journalist now living outside the Philippines, I am embarrassed that the “top stories” in some of
July 1, 2022
“A flexible exchange rate is important, and it shouldn’t be artificially restrained because of the needs of the economy.”—Elvira Nabiullina WHEN I made a transaction with the Western Union in Manhattan at around 9 o’clock in the morning yesterday (June 27), the exchange rate was US$1 to Philippine Peso 54.3132. At
June 29, 2022
“If you’re a pro-lifer, please remember: if life begins at conception, it sure as hell doesn’t end at birth.” ― Quentin R. Bufogle IT took America 49 years to put away Roe v. Wade (born 1973; died 2022). If the same judicial phenomenon happened in the Philippines, Filipinos wouldn’t wait for
June 28, 2022
“Come, let us kill him.”—Bible I GREW up in a country that views abortion as a mortal sin. Nothing more, nothing less. Belonging to the only Christian country in Asia for hundreds of years now, majority of the Filipinos would’ve clapped in unison the recent demise of Roe v. Wade if
June 27, 2022
“Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.”—Buddha BEFORE I found New York to be my second home, I was already exposed to street violence as a kid in our gang-infested neighborhood in Iloilo City in the Philippines in the 70’s. I saw the actual Injan
June 25, 2022
