I have a cousin who is rather high up in an American multinational (I think he’s the first Filipino to hold such responsibilities in the organization) and I asked him, once, why it seemed so few Filipinos reached really high positions in firms overseas. While the American bureaucracy, for one, has more than its fair [...]

Wrote an entry on that judge’s decision on the Peninsula caper. Saved on Ecto. Couldn’t post. Then entry vanished on Ecto. WTF. Ah. Well, it was miraculously saved in drafts. Whew. See Quailing Before the Palace’s Pet Magistrates.

Over the weekend, Thea Alberto’s report (Makati court junks media case on Manila Pen arrests ) sent shock waves rippling through newsrooms. And so, the editorials were unleashed: it’s now A crime to cover protests the Inquirer editorial. And from Business World, the editorial I’d like to quote in full: A coup against press freedom [...]