We apologize for the absolute dearth of recent posts. Things have changed a lot since Pampanga Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was arrested for electoral sabotage: a Supreme Court Chief Justice that she appointed has been impeached, her former Elections chief has also been arrested, and her Butcher of Mindanao ex-general is on the lam.
Here’s an old clip from Sidetracked, a segment on TV5′s The Evening News (TEN), that mentioned Indolent Indio alongside actual A-listers like future Assistant Secretary Manuel Quezon III and journalist Ding Gagelonia (who has since passed). We were the youngest and least-known and the only website still blogging. MLQ3 still blogs but he is [...]
The Senate hearing this week on P660 million in loans that the Development Bank of the Philippines granted businessman Roberto Ongpin was a doozy. The ABS-CBN News Channel broadcast the hearings live for a while but gave up when viewers began zoning out during the discussion on behest loans and stocks and banking principles that [...]
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 [...]
Hey, guys! We’ve fixed the commenting system. It was working too well and therefore was not working at all. Things are fine now, though. The weather is great, too.
The daring dawn raid we hinted at in the last post was not as daring as advertised. The Bureau of Customs raided Tondo Friday morning and seized 60 bags of onions smuggled in from China. At 10 pounds per bag, that comes to 600 pounds and a market value of around P17,680. Admittedly, [deputy Customs [...]
According to our baby mouse, a senator sent a media advisory today telling Senate media that a certain government agency will be conducting a raid on some people somewhere in just a few hours. The actual advisory was, of course, not that vague. The senator who sent it was actually pretty helpful with the details, [...]
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 [...]
Yet more proof that God hates Pasay City: The area around Taft Avenue in Pasay City, Metro Manila has the most polluted air in the Philippines, Senator Miguel Zubiri said Thursday. Quoting a report from the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources, Zubiri said the air in Pasay has 257 micrograms of particulates per [...]
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