“Sidewalk Bistros,”Slice of Life by Larry Alcala (image: Google media). Can”t find Larry? Scroll to the bottom. BACK IN THE DAY, Larry Alcala’s Slice of Life cartoon in Weekend Magazine was the highlight of our week. “Where’s Larry?” was the question; finding him was the goal. It wasn’t easy. Alcala’s icon was a caricature of his face and
THE PHILIPPINE STAR’S early report did not say who distributed the “Declaration of the Revolutionary Government” at the April 2 Palit Bise indignation rally. it only cautiously stated that these folks were “likely not [the] Duterte supporters” who called for the protest action. It did not reveal its basis for that conclusion. The Philippine Daily Inquirer’s later item, however, stated that it was the
I’VE GOT TO hand it to Gary Alejano and the Magdalo group. They’ve got a lot of chutzpah. Finally, someone had the guts to call out Rodrigo Duterte and do it in a way that satisfies. Despite the contempt spewed upon it by the president’s (yes-)men, this complaint is a legitimate Constitutional move that can’t
IT’S FINALLY OVER – I’m referring to the national canvass, of course. Can we stop now as well? I mean the deliberate, consistent pumping of the enmity that divides us. Can we have an end of this please? I am writing from a place of pain, you see. This election season has been the most
IT TOOK ME half an hour to work on the composite photo above. In that time, Leni Robredo’s numbers rose by over 5,000 votes. As of this writing (May 13, 7:32pm), 96.04% of the election returns have been counted (43,686,628 of 55,735,757 registered voters, according to the Comelec-GMA mirror server) and Robredo is steadily maintaning
IN MY HUMBLE view, only one candidate for high office prominently deserves election, and that is Leni Robredo. A former public attorney, Robredo stood with her husband, Jesse, in his inspiring yet tragically abbreviated career. She carried on and entered Congress, from which she was drafted by Mar Roxas to be his co-driver on the
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THREE THINGS ARE choking me up these days: the Bautista teleserye, the Customs fiasco, and the lamentable flaccidity of Alan Peter Cayetano. MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE I don’t give a hoot about the lurid details of the Tish-Andy controversy. A lot goes on in a marriage that can’t be or shouldn’t have to be explained
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