“For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.”—Countee Cullen COMBATIVE Rowena Guanzon has become an eyesore in the presidential campaign of Vice President Leni Robredo, who is surrounded
March 30, 2022
“Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they’re spreading like a contagion.”—Jake Tapper TikTok videos meant to disparage and ridicule political personalities, especially those running for Philippine president, are now a dime a dozen. Anyone with a digital communication gadget will almost instantly be greeted with a black propaganda
March 29, 2022
“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”—Frank A. Clark IF I were Senator Emmanuel “Manny” Pacquiao, I would not allow any of my children to join boxing. Boxing is normally the chosen sport of poor boys who risk
March 28, 2022
BOTH Rep. Arnie Teves of Negros Oriental and former Philippine National Police (PNP) director general Camilo Cascolan understand what “waslik poder” is since they are Visayans. When you take advantage of your position and connection to corner juicy projects and appointments in government—especially if you don’t deserve to get the projects
March 26, 2022
“I am very talkative.”—Zareen Khan THERE is a saying that less talk, less mistake; no talk, no mistakes. The late mercurial former senator Roding Ganzon once said, “Less talk, less mistake; no talk wala utok (no brains).” Because he talked—and exposed himself in a video posted on social media—too much, gambling
March 25, 2022
“Those who imagine polygamy to be handy cover for promiscuity are apparently off the mark. If polygamists share one quality, it is that, polygamy aside, they are extraordinarily strait-laced.”—Molly Ivins WE know a lot of Christian husbands who embraced Islam not because they love the religion, but because they wanted to
March 24, 2022
“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.”—Harriet Beecher Stowe IF not for those surveys showing Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. “leading comfortably” over his closest rival, Vice President Leni Robredo, the only son of the late former Philippine President Ferdinand Sr. would be experiencing sleepless nights, if
March 22, 2022
“Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.”—Andre Maurois EVEN if we succeed in bringing the horse to water, there’s no guarantee it will drink. Or, as the exact quote says that even if we bring the horse
March 21, 2022
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”—Tennessee Williams THERE is more than meets the eye in the recent yakety-yak of Senator Imee Marcos regarding the alleged breach of security in the Smartmatic, the provider of the automated elections system (AES) and vote-counting machines (VCMs) for
March 19, 2022
“Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.”—Eric Hoffer IF we don’t know how to trust the Commission on Elections (Comelec), we have no business participating in the normal electoral process, especially if our primary motive
March 18, 2022
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.”—William James MANUEL L. Quezon’s famous quote, “My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins” can’t be applied to Nacionalista Party (NP) stalwart and Iloilo second district Rep. Michael Gorriceta’s
March 17, 2022
“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”—George Orwell WITH due respect and apology to the camps of other presidential candidates, it’s now getting crystal clear that the May 9, 2022 race may be a down-the-wire finish between Vice President Leni
March 16, 2022
