“Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.”—P. T. Barnum FOR three months starting February 8, the start of the official campaign period for the May 9, 2022 Philippine election, the Filipinos will have to endure listening to the bizarre campaign promises of politicians vying for various local and
February 9, 2022
“Drama starts where logic ends.”—Ram Charan WE don’t know what will happen next to a Manila lawyer defending wanted religious preacher, Apollo Quiboloy, after he insulted the world’s most powerful federal investigative agency. In a statement aired February 6 on Philippine broadcast media, Atty. Ferdinand Topacio accused the Federal Bureau of
February 8, 2022
“You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you’ll be treated as very, very much illegal.”—Tony Abbott I PERSONALLY know a lot of Filipinos who are now in the United States because of religious visas. And it is not only Apollo Quiboloy, President Rodrigo Duterte’s
February 7, 2022
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.”—Mark Twain TEN years ago on February 4, 2012, I interviewed then Quezon City Mayor Herbert “Bistek” Bautista in Vancouver. It was his first visit to Canada, the then 42-year-old former child actor admitted. The
February 5, 2022
“Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”—Robert A. Heinlein BEFORE the start of the recently concluded Australian Open, tennis scribes, sports and Aussie authorities for that matter, wasted a great deal of time tackling the vaccine woes of erstwhile world No. 1 Novak Djokovic as if the world of tennis would
February 4, 2022
“An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.”—John Updike NINETY percent of my past employers in New York were Jews. And most of them didn’t like TV host and actress Whoopi Goldberg. Not because she is a
February 3, 2022
“There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.”—Daniel Webster WHILE monitoring the Winter Storm Kenan in a Midtown Manhattan building on East 51st Street, we were greeted by a “flash” report Sunday (January 30) morning that a woman had leaped to her death from a Midtown high-rise,
February 1, 2022
“People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.”—Will Rogers IF we killed all the lawyers, as what William Shakespeare had “suggested” in Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2, no one would believe Rowena Guanzon, the fire-spewing outgoing Commission on Elections (Comelec)
January 31, 2022
“Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.”—Indira Gandhi NOW that the cat is out of the bag, only a miracle can probably save presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. from being disqualified. In fact, anytime from now, it is feared the 64-year-old former senator’s goose
January 29, 2022
“A strong economy begins with a strong, well-educated workforce.”—Bill Owens IF billionaire former Senator Manuel Villar’s Advanced Media Broadcasting System, Inc. has lawfully acquired the channels previously assigned to ABS-CBN, we don’t see any hindrance for its operations to blast off soon. Lawfully means it must pass through the proper legal
January 28, 2022
“Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don’t want them to become politicians in the process.”—John F. Kennedy THE lousiest and most pathetic politicians, in my opinion, are those allergic to media, or the ones with jitters in one-on-one or “live” interviews. Either these politicians
January 27, 2022
