“A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.”—Charles W. Pickering WE’RE beginning to suspect the apparent feud between Iloilo City Mayor Geronimo “Jerry” Treñas and AAMBIS-OWA partylist Rep. Sharon Garin was a result of: 1)Miscommunication; 2)Emotional Outburst; and 3)Politics. Let’s examine them.
December 9, 2021
“Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.”—Dennis Prager IF you meet former Iloilo City mayor Jose “Joe III” Espinosa III anywhere in Iloilo City nowadays, give him a hug and shake his
December 8, 2021
“A free press needs to be a respected press.”—Tom Stoppard EVEN if I have been writing from outside the Philippines for several years now, several readers and friends have continued to badger me “to write something” about Manuel “Boy” Mejorada’s reported arrest recently. I have nothing to write, I replied to
December 7, 2021
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”—Alan Watts I THOUGHT I would never see the day that my presidential quest was taken seriously by my countrymen living outside Imperial Manila. Not until the withdrawal of The Alalay
December 6, 2021
“He who laughs has not yet heard the bad news.”—Bertolt Brecht INSTEAD of focusing on the coming Yuletide Season after the recent successful Thanksgiving Day, New Yorkers have been rattled by the reported “arrival” of Omicron Variant in the Big Apple. The Filipino community was also saddled by the news and
December 4, 2021
“I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.”—C. S. Lewis IF Filipinos will make the mistake of electing a bad leader in next year’s presidential election, they will suffer in six years
December 3, 2021
“At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.”—Gore Vidal NOBODY knows Filipino pastor Apollo Quiboloy in Africa, where the Omicron Covid-19 variant was reportedly first detected. Thus, it is not true that the latest Covid-19 variant that has threatened to torment people around the world
December 2, 2021
“I have no idea why people want to watch puppets be the slightly meaner version of the weirdo holding them. It’s beyond my comprehension.”—Daniel Tosh IF you are annoyed by the recent acrobatics and screenplays of Senators Bong Go and Bato Dela Rosa in the presidential race, it’s because their political
December 1, 2021
“Most people are overconfident about their own abilities. That is probably a good thing. But we would be horrified if a physician’s aide engaged in heart surgery.”—Andrew Lo BECAUSE of recent developments, I need to communicate with all of you right now with absolute urgency and dispatch while I am still
November 29, 2021
“It was tremendously satisfying to watch this color parade.”—Erno Rubik PARDON me for being a child again, but I was among the thousands of excited and screaming spectators who watched and welcomed back the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with open arms, and under picture-perfect skies, as the iconic march returned for
November 27, 2021
“For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?”—Jesus Christ GOD doesn’t tolerate foolishness even if you’re a lunatic who claims to have a “kinship” with the Creator. In fact, if Jesus Christ can only untangle himself from the cross,
November 26, 2021
“If you’re not in the parade, you watch the parade. That’s life.” —Mike Ditka I HAVE seen many parades these past years in Vancouver, Toronto, California, Washington DC, Texas, but nothing could match New York City’s annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, a United States tradition that really draws spectators from around
November 25, 2021
