Monthly Archives: November 2016

BINGE watching on Star Wars fan films at 4 AM, I came across this particular flick. The creators veered away from the usual Jedi Knight struggles with the dark side of The Force to the perspective of a Storm Trooper … Continue reading →

OF LATE the arrest and presentation to congress of drug lord Kerwin Espinosa and bodyguard Ronnie Dayan have opened a new chapter to the travails of Senator Leila De Lima, flooding social media with much discussion and vitriol. The gameplan … Continue reading →

RECENTLY we wrote about how the various administrations from Cory Aquino all the way to her son Noynoy and now Rodrigo Duterte had dealt with the Marcos Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) burial for political leverage. Basically, they recognized during … Continue reading →

A PETITION in change.org entitled “18 Million Signatures a PLEA for Pres. Rodrigo Duterte’s Peaceful Resignation and Removal” has been circulating on social media and as of this writing it has been there for 14 hours and garnered 3,666 supporters. … Continue reading →

PAST presidents made deals with the Marcos family in varying degrees. The family’s ultimate goal: to restore full recognition of his legacy. And in those different deals and circumstances these leaders approved the Marcos requests, in great measure for their … Continue reading →

AMID the slogan chanting and horn blowing lies the energy of a youth concientized by their professors and parents who themselves were called to action 30 years ago, whose eyes were opened to the atrocities perpetrated for over 20 years … Continue reading →

ONCE again the issue of burying Ferdinand E. Marcos in the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes’ Cemetery)  dominates the social and political buzz in social media. As a millennial-friendly backgrounder: Marcos was the president of the Philippines: elected in 1965, … Continue reading →

When the internet experienced its first surge in the 1990s there was so much concern for kids surfing the net and accidentally (or purposely) going into undesirable sites like pornography or — heaven forbid — advanced education. Thus developers came … Continue reading →

WHEN I was a full time journalist some 30 odd years ago there was a game of cat and mouse we used to play with our sources. Basically we bait them to say things we could use in our stories … Continue reading →