You can view last Tuesday’s (October 28) The Explainer on line on YouTube. Incidentally, apropos of the assertions made by my guest, former Senator Eva Estrada Kalaw, the son of former Senate President Jovito Salonga, Steve Salonga, sent me the following e-mail: I viewed your program this evening with Tita Eva Estrada Kalaw and the [...]
(Video taken by Arbet Bernardo) After a gathering of bloggers, together with Blog@AWBHoldings.com, BrinkNotes, and Billycoy, we decided to check out the action at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. The road leading to NAIA Terminal I was lined on either side with vehicles and there was traffic on the ramp going up to the terminal. [...]
My column today is Bolante’s great escape. For details, check out Newsbreak’s Timeline: Joc-joc Bolante and the Fertilizer Scam and CA upholds decision to freeze Bolante’s bank accounts and the Arroyo Corruption wiki and Rotarians urge Bolante to come out and tell the truth (not to mention Jun Lozada weighing in, too). The Warrior Lawyer [...]
Today, the Second Mindanao Bloggers Summit is taking place in General Santos City. I was supposed to attend but my illness over the past week required my staying home. I’m glad they decided to invite The Jester-in-Exile instead. You can follow the proceedings on Ria on Tumblr.Here is what I intended to say at the [...]
I am currently in sickbay right now and thus cannot write a long post. I urge you, though, to contribute to what could be an embryo primary process by participating in the Filipino Voices poll asking who your choices are in 2010. This is something that deserves widest publicity, and I urge you to not [...]
(Above, prewar Philippines Free Press editorial cartoon) Today is Blog Action Day, with the theme of Poverty. I am republishing an article I wrote in two parts, the first when I was still in college, the second, a decade later upon rediscovering what I’d written a decade earlier… Apology not accepted YOU were standing by [...]
Alice Poon pens an essay on the Anatomy of Greed, which closes with: Perhaps what we really need in this age of unrestrained greed is to somehow find a way to rebuilding the moral foundation in our societies, even if it means, in part, putting in place more stringent, preventive regulations. While I keep an [...]
This week’s episode of The Explainer (which you can watch on YouTube) focused on some terms being bandied about in the news, and focused on Warren Buffett’s views concerning the financial meltdown in the USA: You can also read the transcript over at CNBC.com. Buffett and many others leveraged their personal influence and prestige to [...]
The President’s pardoning Claudio Teehankee Jr. seems to have caused great offense. And yet first of all, it is an act that is irreversible. It is also an act that represents a net gain, politically, for the President regardless of its effects on public opinion. If it is true, as the Justice Secretary claims, that [...]
