With magic man, and senator, Francis “Chiz” Escudero’s decision not to run for president (or at all) in 2010, our hopes of a perfect tandem have forever been shattered. Indolent Indio had been waiting to throw our support behind a superhero team up of Senator Richard Gordon with Escudero as his VP if for nothing [...]
In 2007, the average score on the National Achievement Test given to our public elementary school kids was 55%. In 2008, it was 66%, the new benchmark set by our Department of Education from the original 75%.
Capiz Province, erstwhile Aswang Capital of the Philippines, recently took offense at Malacanang for shrugging off Sen. Manuel Roxas II’s garlic-garland gimmick as nothing more than such, and for calling him “Boy Bawang” after a popular garlic-flavored corn snack. Capiz, it turns out, is also the capital of what debate coaches and high school English [...]
Sen. Manuel Roxas II has gone from “Boy Padyak” to “Boy Bawang” with his recent gimmick on the Senate floor: wearing a garland of garlic while he railed against the Con-Asswang (Constituent Assembly Monster, but the cleverness is lost in translation) in a privilege speech. He later distributed garlic to his fellow senators as a [...]