Wise Guys Vs. Wise Men

  By Oliver Geronilla
 
Times have indeed changed! Gone were the days when rumor-mongering, yellow journalism, and character assassination were confined to the walls of beauty salons, roadside eateries, and other similar places where rancor and candor filled the bucolic air of yore. Now you can see people from different walks of life—fishwives, henpecked husbands, bums, government [...]

“SANTINO”

(The November 2009 episode)
By: Tonyboy G. Gilana
 
One of the most beautiful, most educational, most meaningful, most poignant, most timely and most relevant shows in Philippine television today is the award-winning ABS-CBN teleserye “Santino”, a story of a young boy, known in his town of Bagong Pag-asa as an orphan, and was adopted by a wonderful [...]

The Culture of Honesty in Bulan

By: Tonyboy G. Gilana
 
 
This is in response to the thesis put forward by Bulaneno in his article, “The Culture of Corruption in Bulan”
In 2005, the Local Government Unit of Bulan called forward for all our people to see, and emulate, several ordinary Bulanenos, who displayed that wonderful virtue of honesty and fineness of heart.
Mr. Alex [...]

Slings and Arrows (random thoughts)

 
by Oliver Geronilla
 
I don’t live in cloud-cuckoo land; so, I won’t pretend that black is white. For the nonce, let me do a double take at the scintillating points raised in some of the articles here.
Quite interestingly, many of those who make no bones about the way things are being done in Bulan are armchair [...]

VFA: a Lick and a Promise?

 
By W. Scott Thompson and Oliver Geronilla*
 
“Well, because he looked like a wild boar,” the American serviceman explained his shooting of a Pinoy at Subic Bay forty years ago; was there anything more insensitive he might have said? Oh yes there is. When rich Bill Blair arrived with his wife (Deedee of the ten best [...]

Madame John Quincy Adams?

 
By W. Scott Thompson and Oliver Geronilla*
 
The sixth American president, like GMA, was the child of a previous president: John Quincy Adams was son to second president John Adams. After he lost his bid for reelection in 1828 to the populist Andrew Jackson, he bided his time looking for ways to be useful to the [...]