This online editor better start thinking real quick and stop clicking Like buttons on Facebook. Why? Two staff members are about to hit send buttons on emails indicating their resignations. This after only working six months or so for the news website that he supposedly heads. What could be wrong in the office? Is it because [...]
So Jollibee Food Corp. pulled its ads from the show Willing Willie due to the Jan-Jan controversy. The same Jollibee Food Corp. whose mascots dance like this in children’s birthday parties: Comment from audience: “Hahaha, ang laswa!” Now, if the outrage over Willing Willie was that it’s morally wrong to expose children to lewd dancing [...]
The Philippine Supreme Court has cleared their pal fellow judge Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo from plagiarising because, allegedly, he didn’t intend to plagiarise in the first place. Instead, it was Microsoft Word’s fault for not detecting the plagiarised material that he inserted into his document: The court also said it was not Del Castillo’s or [...]
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Floyd Mayweather Jr., the American boxer currently in negotiations to be Pacquiao’s next punching bag, is caught on video in a racist rant against the Filipino boxing champion and congressman, who he calls a “little yellow chump”: “As soon as we come off vacation, we’re going to cook that little yellow chump. We ain’t worried [...]
You know how Filipinos take the success and international fame of an individual and makes it a triumph of the whole nation? Well that cuts both ways. Meet Michael Kevin Lallana, a finance executive in California, who allegedly put his sperm in his co-worker’s bottled water. This is, according to the Orange County DA, the second [...]
A group of students from Ateneo and UP won first prize at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup Game Design competition by creating a game that asks players to “battle poverty, gender inequality and environmental degradation and save the world by social action and volunteerism.” Mighty big responsibility for a video game. The article is silent on details about [...]
Truly an epic fail: “He was supposed to be one of our strongest witnesses,” prosecutor Harry Roque told Agence France-Presse. “He saw, and participated in, the killings and could have directly named in court those involved.” And apparently this wasn’t the first case: His death comes two months after an uncle of another witness was [...]
Outdated moral values trumps progressive education. The Department of Education has indefinitely postponed the integration of Sex Education into the school curriculum, pending consultation with the Inquisition Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines. Valisno clarified that the deferment was not a reaction to Monday’s filing of a class suit by Ang Kapatiran Party (AKP) before [...]
Former lawyer of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Jo Aurea Imbong has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Education for incorporating sex education into the curriculum. “We have examined the modules being used by DepEd and found that it promotes family planning, reproductive health and demographic development in subjects such as Mathematics, [...]