Armed robbers stormed Greenbelt Five at high noon in Manila today. A Rolex Store was the target. The mall locked down as police are conducting their investigation. As I type this, the Inquirer reported one suspect is dead, shot by a bodyguard of Taguig Mayor Freddie Tinga. I’m pretty sure by the time you read [...]
Nardong putik
June 24, 2009 By 7 Comments
I saw the news report on Bandila last night, read a discussion thread on the topic in Peyups.com, and followed the link to the report on the Inquirer.net. Then I came back to the Peyups.com thread and posted this reaction: Good riddance. Another bunch of dumbass Caviteno hotheads bite the dust. I’m referring of course [...]
Is it really that hard?
April 29, 2009 By 5 Comments
I’ve been so busy extolling how so many of the issues that plague Philippine society are really so simple that it never occurred to me to ask another equally simple question: Is it that hard? That’s a question I credit to commenter BongV who asks in a recent comment: For example, corruption. How hard is [...]
Would You Call The Police if You Were in Trouble?
April 17, 2009 By 28 Comments
Are We in Gotham? What troubled me was this: at the start of the Failon Murder or Suicide Case, no one seem to trust the police. Don’t you find that disturbing?
Scandalizing The Suffering: The Pangandaman-Dela Paz Melee
December 29, 2008 By 304 Comments
The feuding Pangandamans and Dela Pazes are still on Page One. The accused father and son golfing buddies were on nationwide radio and TV today to profess their innocence and claiming self defense with the ‘honorable’ 27-year-old mayor of a little known town in Lanao accusing a junior golfer 13 years his junior of having [...]
Truth, justice, and Da Pinoy way
October 8, 2008 By 8 Comments
Claudio Teehankee Jr. is free, and guess what, his victims are still dead. And on cue, we get these quaint platitiudes from our friendly neighbourhood politicians: Sen. Loren Legarda: “Are we turning into a country that does not respect the law, that abuses its powers of executive clemency?” Sen. Mar Roxas: “it’s sad that the [...]
What are our rights to something acquired under illegal circumstances?
July 25, 2008 By 81 Comments
AdB‘s take on illegal Pinoy aliens in Sabah gleaned from several comments he made on Ding’s post is interesting. It provides a bit of insight on our unique ability to rationalise and — worse — institutionalise extralegality into the very fabric of our society. It aligns with something I highlighted way back in a 2003 [...]
“Restraint” and the average Pinoy schmoe
June 10, 2008 By 11 Comments
The news about Ces Drilon’s abduction is sad indeed. It must be a huge comfort to her family to know that there is an all-out effort (based on Ding G. Gagelonia’s frequent updates) to recover her and her crew safely; among others: a call for “media restraint”, a “directive” to the AFP to “share intelligence [...]
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