The Big Con: The triumphant return of Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson
In Steven Spielberg’s 2002 film Catch Me If You Can, Frank Abagnale Jr (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) manages to cash more than $2.5 million in bogus cheques while eluding law …
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Dear President Noynoy, being average is NOT being resilient
According to Philippine President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy), Filipinos’ resilience will see us through any crisis. Here’s what he had to say as reported in a Philstar.com news item: “Resilient? Yes, …
Read MoreCase studies of irrelevance: Drug mules and Ombudsman Merci Gutierrez
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Country Fact Sheet for the Philippines published in 2006, 16,000 Filipinos died violently in 2002. This means that in the five hours it …
Read MoreFocus on the future eludes Filipinos despite an abundance of lessons
In the past several weeks, many things have happened that rocked the globe and will likely have ramifications over the next six to 12 months that we can only begin …
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Since Edsa 1986: 25 years of walking the walk of shame with a bad hangover
I went to “Edsa” in 1986 to kibitz, make tusok-tusok da fishball and watch girls. Ok, so I also wanted to “contribute” to removing then President Ferdinand E. Marcos from …
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