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I like labels. It caters to the obsessive-compulsive in me and it works to establish order and boundaries. One of my favorite childhood activities, especially during the grade school years, was labeling all my school supplies using Dymo (revealing my age, yes) and those different colors of Dymo labels.
However, it is one thing to label personal property and another to label natural wonders and cultural treasures such as, say, a volcano.
Continue Reading →The Senate smells something fishy about the P660M loan that DBP extended to businessman Roberto Ongpin to acquire the Philex shares that he subsequently sold to another businessman, Manuel V. Pangilinan. A lot of people also smell something fishy although, like me, they are as clueless as the blind man who wandered into [...]
Continue Reading →Yup, that’s right; that’s not a typo. The Catholic Church was responsible for reducing the size of families in Western Europe contrary to popular belief.
Before I get stuck in the details, a little context is needed.
The fight over the reproductive health bill in the Philippines has pitted the Catholic clergy and faithful [...]
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In a disconcerting double-whammy, the Philippines’ Ninoy Aquino International Airport was voted the worst airport “for sleeping in” on the same week that Air France-KLM announced a phasing out of its Manila-Amsterdam route.
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Gun control? We need bullet control! I think every bullet should cost 5,000 dollars. Because if a bullet cost five thousand dollars, we wouldn’t have any innocent bystanders. – Chris Rock
Why was the president’s political adviser carrying a machinegun in his car? I presume it’s because he’s been told that anybody who [...]
Continue Reading →In a two-part Bloomberg article reprinted in Business Mirror last Sunday, Rhacel Salazar Parrenas summarizes the findings of her nine-month study (2005-2006) on japayukis.
Parrenas argues that the US government’s campaign against global sex-trafficking “poses a setback to the emancipation of women. It has stripped [...]
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Columnists in every newspaper, and commentaries on Radio, television and on blogs have made an industry on pointing out what’s wrong with our nation. My point is, those realizations, and pointing things out, “How bad” things are, or the “Ugly state of things” is worn out.
Continue Reading →I will be in Manila Polo Club tomorrow to attend an international forum on the West Philippine Sea sponsored by the Carlos P. Romulo Foundation and the Singapore-based Institute of South East Asian Studies. There will be 23 notable former officials and authorities from academe speaking from ASEAN countries, China, Australia, India , North [...]
Continue Reading →My vagina is like New Jersey, everyone knows where it is but no one wants to go there. – Joan Rivers
US Ambassador Harry Thomas got into trouble for pointing out something that no one likes to admit is true: many tourists come here for sex. He cited the number as 40 percent. [...]
Continue Reading →- Metro Cebu – December 18, 2011
- Metro Davao – December 18, 2011
- Metro Manila – December 18, 2011
