Talking World Cup, Part 2
THE GROUP stage has been done and dusted and it has been anything but unpredictable. Defending champion Germany never had the chance to defend...
‘People are strange’…redux
“When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
when you're strange
No one remembers your name”
- The Doors
THE WEEK has been toxic quite literally and we...
Talking World Cup
IT’S INEVITABLE that moi will talk about the world’s biggest stage for the world’s most popular – both as a spectator and participant –...
There’s a new mess brewing in Boracay
AND THE beaches look sparkling clean, the waters seemingly pristine once more.
From all indications President Rodrigo Duterte was right in closing down Boracay for...
‘If I could only remember my name’
I wonder who they are
The men who really run this land
And I wonder why they run it
With such a thoughtless hand
What are their names
And...
‘President Aquino: Sainthood postponed’
THERE is now a creeping movement calling for Cory Aquino to be canonized by the Vatican as a saint. And moi is not surprised...
‘My Filipino people’
AS IN A previous column this one is also prompted by recent events, manifestations and public tantrums of “never was and not former” Chief...
Justice is served!
IT WAS a great day last Tuesday, June 19; Maria Lourdes Sereno was booted out with finality via another fullback kick by the Supreme...
‘Excuse me while I kiss the sky’…revisited
“Purple haze, all in my brain
lately things they don't seem the same
Actin' funny, but I don't know why
Excuse me while I kiss the sky”...
-...
Hypocrisy in the name of God
HYPOCRISY is the contrivance of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral...