Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano, paragon of probity, has put the confirmation of another Commission on Elections commissioner on hold for “conflict of interest.” At the Commission on Appointments hearing earlier this week, Cayetano blocked the confirmation of Comelec commissioner Christian Lim because he “has many more questions.” Chief among those questions, apparently: During [...]
There is no doubt that budget flag carrier Cebu Pacific has changed Philippine commercial aviation with its seat sales and dancing flight attendants. As is true in everything from rap to capitalism, sometimes you change the game, and sometimes the game changes you. Indolent reader XM says getting seats on a Cebu Pacific flight, [...]
Filipino pride, recently restored by an apology from US Ambassador Harry Thomas Jr. after he said 40 percent of male tourists come to the country for sex, may soon be bruised again once the Philippine online hive mind notices this newest (I guess) assault on our national integrity. Travel blogger QuatermainesWorld says Manila “has got [...]
The Philippines, ever hungry for world fame (and also ever hungry), seems to have gone a little crocodile-crazy ever since Lolong, a giant one-ton crocodile, was caught in Agusan Del Sur in September. Lolong was in the running to get into the Guinness World Book of Records for a while, and from wildlife officers for [...]
Guys. We get it. Planking is the protest action du jour, especially after Quezon City Representative Winston Castelo proposed a controversial and draconian law to penalize planking on the streets during protest rallies. As predicted, though, Filipinos took an Internet meme, hyped it up, then beat that dead horse until it could not possibly get [...]
Although not quite as rich, it seems employees of this US-based banking firm have learned to party like bankers from the 1980s. According to our sources, these hotshot bankers held one of their “team-building” activities at a hotel in Manila and left the place in shambles. Not content with smoking on a non-smoking floor, they [...]
After Typhoon Pedring kicked Manila’s ass earlier this week, the Department of Public Works and Highways was quick to get out in the field and check damage to the sea wall along Roxas Boulevard. They were also apparently quick to fire up their Photoshop for a sloppily-done PR photo showing their officials at the site. [...]
Twitter is a great tool for keeping tabs on your friends and on things that interest you. It is also a great tool for being a tool. Like so: Now, the UP College Admission Test (UPCAT) is sort of a big deal for many high school seniors, and the pressure of getting in is too [...]
This is why we can’t have nice things like a law authorizing the government to talk to women about contraception and reproductive rights. No wonder reporters on the House beat have resorted to intrigues and infighting. This place is so dead two hours after the session is supposed to start, they cannot be blamed [...]
Indolent Indio‘s long and lazy campaign against pornography in advertising has paid off. Our crusade against smutty Red Ribbon ads (See “Is This a Cake or a Cock?,” 11 September 2009, “Is This Going To Be The Last Show?“, 10 June 2010) has resulted in a victory that is as sweet as cakes that do not [...]