With the proliferation of various faiths, danger lurks on their memberships. Being a dyed-in-the-wool or practicing Sunni or Shiite or Hindi or fundamentalist Christian or Mormon in the mould of Mitt Romney or plain Esperikitik is dangerous to one’s health. To most Republicans, Mike Huckabee’s or Romney’s faith is simply unacceptable. Being religious is a...
“Good people are resented for their virtue. And because they make everyone around them feel even worse about themselves, they need to be taught a lesson ” (DOGVILLE, Lars von Trier) Have we reached the apex of misery that we hate good people all around us? Good people are certainly dwindling in these parts for...
Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime…. Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand…. Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in some … real degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community. –...
Work ethic is absent in the Filipino psyche. We hear of the enviable work ethics of our fellow Asians. The Singaporeans work as if tomorrow is the end of the world. The Europeans come up with the best literature, scientific theory, music, poems, and designs. The Japanese, their gadgetry. Work to these people means a...
A presidential candidate needs all the allies that he can get. An ally personifies a bloc, an influence, or in command of a machinery or system that translates into quantification of numerical numbers overwhelmingly or preponderatingly necessary in electing the presidential bet. These allies are independent islands unto themselves. Once their special operations turn into...
HOW BASTOS IS BOY VERZO? By all indications, it looks like Philippine demography in terms of intellectual pursuit is broken into three categories: the sachet class, the cerebral branch, and the creative techies. ERAP WAS CONVICTED OF “BLUNDER” When the graft court announced the conviction of Erap, one Erap supporter was asked on his take...
There’s talk on the street; it sounds so familiar Great expectations, everybody’s watching you People you meet, they all seem to know you Even your old friends treat you like you’re something new (Eagles, New Kid In Town) We have now an interesting composition of the Senate. Gradually we are exorcising ourselves with deadwoods content...
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD It was near the end of his term in 1998 when then Congressman Bobby Tanada introduced the bill proposing the division of Quezon. That came in the heels of his parting of ways with his congressional seatmate and gubernatorial candidate in 1998, Willie Enverga. Bobby Tanada was heard saying he...
He spoke too soon. Manny Villar is a marked man when he said right after the SONA that the President is a spent force, a lame duck. While she made some reassuring words that she won’t be seeking reelection as the Constitution bars it, she was heard saying in jest somewhere in Pampanga that she...
After two decades, we have seemingly outgrown our juvenile fascination with entertainment celebrities. We barred the likes of Tito Sotto and Lito Lapid from the Senate and Makati City Hall, respectively. Goma and Machete are sulking with their trophy wives. It looks like Bong Revilla and Jinggoy Estrada are revving up their public relations machines...
When the provincial candidates hit the campaign trail last elections, nobody among them ever mentioned that there is a bill now up for plebiscite where we shall be asked whether we approve of the division of Quezon. What we remember was the vehement exhortation of the local bets on motherhood statements and rhetorics like unity...
Quezon Province, no doubt, is one big stretch of a country. A former governor once mused that Pres. Quezon, being a semi-dictator in his time, personally delineated the metes and bounds of his province, Tayabas, using a pencil in the presence of the chiefs of the Bureau of Lands and the present day National Mapping...
