Category: Lifestyle

Richard Heydarian looks to artificial intelligence to validate his victimhood

August 2, 2025August 2, 2025 benign0 3 Comments

When all else fails, seek validation from an artificial intelligence (AI), right? Laughably, this is what self-crowned “thought leader” Richard Heydarian does on an X post promoting Grok to tell him all about his self-perceived victimhood. Heydarian fails to consider that people are on to the AI hype. These systems — specifically those made available…

Lifestyle, Media

“Hunger strikes” are so Last Century

December 11, 2023December 11, 2023 benign0 2 Comments

Yes, the Mahatma Gandhi did it. But then he was the Mahatma. Will the stunt currently being undertaken by SMNI anchors Lorraine Badoy and Eric Celiz deliver the same public indignation that launched the revolution of the sort that transpired in India that is credited to Gandhi? Very likely not. Will it move those who…

Crime, Lifestyle

“Some people need killing”

October 18, 2023October 19, 2023 benign0 2 Comments

Former Rapplerete Patricia Evangelista used this as the title of her book on — what else? — the allegedly murderous administration of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. As I write this, her fellow Rapplerete Lian Buan is tweet-reporting the launching of the book in chi chi New York City (where else, right?). Buan “reports” that…

Lifestyle, Media

What the Islamic terrorist invasion of Israel means to Filipinos

October 10, 2023 benign0 4 Comments

As Filipinos generally see the world through the lens of their renowned national self-absorption (“Oh no! How many OFWs will be impacted by the events in Israel!”), it is probably best that recent events in the Middle East be processed through the lens of what all that means for the Philippines. This is easy. The…

Economy, Lifestyle

Black skin is beautiful too according to Pinoy Big Brother star Bianca Gonzalez

May 6, 2023 benign0 1 Comment

As of yesterday, the 5th of May 2023, the COVID-19 pandemic is officially over — or so repeatedly declares the World Health Organisation. News outlets over the last 24 hours echoed the words of W.H.O. director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who announced “It is with great hope that I declare Covid-19 over as a global…

Business, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

Why are Filipinos so physically unfit?

May 3, 2023May 3, 2023 benign0 5 Comments

A video shared on Twitter by ABS-CBN News correspondent Pia Gutierrez (who is, as of this writing, covering Philippine President Bongbong Marcos’s official visit to the United States), shows anti-government “activists” in Washington DC chasing what appears to be Marcos’s motorcade. Observations have since been made about a number of things seen in this video…

Lifestyle, Society

Why Filipino priests are no longer the toasts of Philippine society

May 2, 2023 benign0 3 Comments

There was a time in the Philippines when priests were regarded as trophy guests in parties and family reunions. They’d also be essential members of every consequential gentleman’s or lady’s social network. Indeed, in social situations, they were figures that people would mill around to get their dose of basbas (sort of a stamp of…

Culture, Lifestyle, Religion, Society

Concerns of commuting public IGNORED as “activists” paint jeepney drivers as “victims”

March 4, 2023 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

I still can’t figure out how millennials like Inquirer columnist Anna Cristina Tuazon think and it’s unlikely I will ever in what time I have left. In her piece “Jeepney operators strike back”, Tuazon writes of the so called plight of the jeepney drivers facing the forces of modernisation; how their “fight” is “not mere…

Development, Lifestyle, Society