The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many…
My good friend and a classmate in college, Walter T. Young had wandered into my blog. I didn’t know that he was a Marcos believer. I take the liberty of posting here part of Mrs. Carmen Guerrero Nakpil’s trilogy which is kept in Presidential Museum and Library and shared in the timelines of some Facebook…
We do not have the sophistication and the elan of most people who inhabit the most prosperous countries of the world and therefore we shall always be poor and miserable unless we change our attitude and character as a people. We could not handle a simple hostage-taking drama and we blame the President for the catastrophic…
We are known for making a mountain out of a molehill. If Senator Aquino would wish to take his oath of Office as President by declaring that he will faithfully execute the Office of President of the Philippines, and will to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, it does not…
At the close of election day, votes will be tabulated and early on Senator Benigno Aquino III would be leading the pack of presidential candidates and finally he will be declared the winner. His election would be without protests, but unexpectedly, Manny Villar, will be the first one to concede to Aquino’s victory, followed by…
An annoyed Olympus God threw a bolt of blinding lightning and a ball of rumbling thunder across the valley of miscreant lowlifes to instill fear on one misguided and insolent soul who dare challenge the integrity of these “cloud-dwelling” deities. This is the closest metaphor I can think of the One Million Peso libel complaint…
Some people I have considered literate had been taken for a hilarious ride by the Magdalo Group of soldiers. The Magdalo Group is version 2 of RAM (Reform the Armed Forces Movement) by Senator Gregorio Honasan and the members of this group are transactional operators just like RAM members; they too are brash, ambitious, adventurous…
Mother Theresa is about to be honored by the United States Postal Service by proposing to issue on her 100th birthday, this coming August 26, a commemorative stamp bearing the diminutive nun from Albany who had served the poor of Calcutta, India from 1950 to 1997 and the poor all over the world through her…
I have two good reasons not to file this article; one, in the midst of economic crisis and poverty in the country, it is obscene to talk about your blissful Christmas holidays where you have sumptuous meal to feast on and, two, after spending some money during the holidays, you have to roll up your…
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