Playing the long game
Begin with the end in view—Stephen Covey, Seven Habits of Effective People One of the sweetest and pleasant things the Senate does before its session is to require its small choir to sing a kind of prelude before it gets down to serious business. No doubt, it adds solemnity to its sacred performance. Its […]
The challenge
The President thinks, or so it seems, that he’s up to the challenge of his time. It’s an enviable one; quite dicey, too. The odds of keeping his throne are very much at stake here. For one thing, he and his followers do not want a repeat of People Power 1986. The visceral memories of […]
It’s philosophy, or it’s politics
The 19th century German philosopher Nietzsche said that adversity builds character. “ That which doesn’t kill you , he said,”will make you strong.” This much was conveyed by Jose Rizal in his prophetic “The Filipinos, A Century Hence.” His people, he said, will emerge eventually, triumphant from the yoke of colonization. It didn’t occur to […]
The French have a word for it
A rocambolesque story. It’s a modern story that would have aptly, succinctly portrayed what has been dubbed as an unprecedented account of corruption in the Philippines. In English, rocambolesque means extravavagant, fantastic, incredible, fabulous. Any adjective would have fit the extraordinary sad, shameful narrative to a T. The French , and the rest of the […]
Too many crooks spoil the broth
President Bongbong Marcos must have been nonplussed when he opened –accidentally discovered, so they say—a Pandora’s box in public works anomalies when some crooks hiding in plain sight confessed their big time shenanigans, or “sins” if you will. That is said as a concessional understanding of most Fiipinos’ theology given that the Philippines was allegedly […]
A logical conclusion
The moral pain has been there in our neck of the woods for a long, long time, says the new kid in the public works agency. In fact, you have to go back easily in the decades of a marinating corruption in the agency, Secretary Vince Dizon said, unequivocally and courageously. His earlier encomium […]
Thanks to the heads -up
He’s no hypocrite, Sen. Ronald“Bato” dela Rosa, who could be the last man standing when the going gets really rough for his principals– not the “ we the people” preambled in the Philippine Constitution– but the father and daughter tag team of the fighting, feisty Duterte clan. Ergo, he will not attend the forthcoming 4th […]
The nation’s menu
What’s on the a la carte nowadays is not inviting. In fact, you may say items on the menu are kosher. The cuisine has never been so gross. What’s scribbled like strange grafitti on the table top comes straight from Paul’s letter to a young pastor Timothy. It warned all and sundry that the love […]