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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
In the run up to the Quezon City mayoral election in May, former Arroyo lackey Michael Defensor accused then QC vice mayor Herbert Bautista of pocketing city money through non-existent projects and a rigged feeding program. It was a particularly nasty smear campaign with demands for Bautista to explain himself spraypainted all over Quezon City [...]
Remember that grade school retort “wala yan sa lolo ko? (roughly: my grandfather is even more badass than that)” that nobody ever really used except ironically?
With the billions that he’s putting into his presidential campaign, Senator Manuel Bamba Villar Jr. might as well buy the entire Internet. He’s on Google AdSense, he’s on Twitter, he’s even on facebook, suggesting that you become his fan or friend or both. He’s everywhere now, and he might just take it a little too [...]
There are four things wrong with this image from the Department of Agriculture: 1. Nobody uses 2-liner analog cellphones any more. 2. Rotary phones no longer work. 3. There is no excuse for using animated .gifs any more. 4. That doesn’t even make sense. Somewhere, a vengeful hog is plotting the destruction of our very [...]
Times are tough everywhere. First, a high-end watch store gets robbed in Makati in broad daylight, and just today, a truck carrying about 25 tons of copra was hijacked. Who the hell would want to steal copra?