A politically doddering father
“Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.” — John Sandford ILOILO CITY Mayor Geronimo “Jerry” Treñas has been getting a flak fo...
Alex P. VidalAugust 1, 20244 min
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“Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness.” — John Sandford ILOILO CITY Mayor Geronimo “Jerry” Treñas has been getting a flak fo...
“If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.” — Jesse Owens WHILE our athletes have not been making headlines...
“For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.”—Richard Cobden NO sighting means there are no warm bodies of “illegal Chinese immigrants” doin...
“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”—Honore de Balzac THE Cebu Pacific has beaten to draw the Philippine Government when it announc...
“With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.”—Johnny Weissmuller EVEN if all the 22 Filipino athletes partici...
“Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are – rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call ‘global...
“When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.”—Samuel Johnson ONLY calamities and bad weathers ...
“People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?” —Imelda Marcos THERE’S a d...
“Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don’t want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by t...