“I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor until I was with you, and I realized: you don’t realize you’re on the floor.” —David Levithan   A FORMER physical education (P.E.) teacher, stricken with a life-threatening disease from Cagayan de Oro City in the Philippines, has only one wish before she dies: acceptance and understanding from family and friends. “Most of all, they must stop condemning and blaming me (for what I did) because I also needed it (the thin

IT is rare for a high-ranking Filipino public official to commit suicide after being caught in a web of corruption scandal. Except for Angelo Reyes and Maria Catalina Cabral, no other known public official of national stature in the Philippines has chosen the route to perdition to escape prosecution and permanent shame and scandal if they were alive. Reyes, 65, a retired general, shot himself in the head in the cemetery in 2011 after being linked to graft and corruption in th

“You have undertaken to cheat me. I won't sue you, for the law is too slow. I'll ruin you.” —Cornelius Vanderbilt WE wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, but it has become obvious and crystal clear the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) and the Office of the Ombudsman, Department of Justice (DoJ), including the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), are really slow as snails. Pardon us, but aren’t they supposed to announce the indictment of thos

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche I SUPPORT the majority of the Filipinos against rascals and political lunatics who wanted but failed to topple the Marcos Jr. administration, but I disagree with the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to prioritize the arrest of some local officials who left the Philippin

“Beware of smile, for it is a double-edged sword; it cuts the helmet of tension from other head and backfires the peace to yours.” ―Vikrmn,  You By You EVEN before the country’s political cretins, the conspirators and mercenaries could complete their final script to oust President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. these past days their sinister plot did not only nosedive but also boomeranged. Instead of painting Mr. Marcos Jr. as the baddest guy on planet earth with outlandish

WE still believe Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. wanted to become president primarily to save, redeem, rehabilitate and restore the reputation of the Marcos family severely mangled after the 1986 EDSA Revolution. Marcos became the most hated family thereafter with Marcos Sr. and former First Lady Imelda Marcos respectively landing in the Guinness Book of Records for the “greatest robbery in government” and “largest shoe collection (estimated as high as 3,000).” This was painf

WE will finally hear the other side of the coin. Of the total 318 members of the Philippine House of Representatives, only 17 have been invited to appear in the “reinvigorated” next hearing of the Senate Blue Ribbon committee chaired by Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo Lacson. One of them is Iloilo City’s Uswag Ilonggo party-list Rep. James “Jojo” Ang, who comes from a family of contractors. Aside from Ang, a protégé of former Iloilo City mayor Geronimo “Jerry” Treñas, no

BECAUSE of the two successive earthquakes that hit Cebu in the Visayas and Davao in Mindanao recently, Filipinos are now fearing the so-called “big one,” a projected magnitude 7.2 earthquake that could affect Metro Manila and nearby provinces as part of the West Valley Fauly's natural long-term cycle, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS). And because of those deadly earthquakes, the media attention has shifted from Zaldy Co, Martin Ro

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