The Inquirer bottom fishes for circulation

Bottom fishing is when you drag the net across the seabed to scrape up any living creature unfortunate enough to be there. It scrapes up sea snakes, squid, crabs, blowfish, baby fish that will never become meat, and used condoms. It is banned in most locations, but that never stopped the scurrilous from using the … Continue reading

To disembowel a blogger

  w By Popoy Del R. Cartanio What make the innards of a blogger Could be something tough like leather Or something crispy like Lapid’s Chicharon, plain or spicy or greasy brown Bulaklak or Bituka the taste of malansa. Or it could be like tasty bread Like a cadaver laid on his back Sold in … Continue reading

Let’s have that debate, folks

w by Andrew Lim Grace Poe’s 20-point agenda, which she briefly discussed in her announcement to run for President in 2016 gave me an idea for something that has not been done here with much success. Either several of the candidates purposely avoid it, since they are incapable of handling it, revealing their inadeqacies, or they think too … Continue reading

Ethical standards for blog commenters

How do you engage on behalf of the Philippines? Do you vote? Did or do you serve in the military, police, fire department or coast guard? Do you work in government? Do you belong to advocacy groups? Are you an OFW who sends part of his hard-earned money to support loved ones, and the Philippine … Continue reading

Poems by Will, shots across the bow . . . and heart

by Wilfredo G. Villanueva September 2015   Reptilian Eyes O, Philippines, beloved country, be afraid, be very afraid, the eyes have it, and they are mirrors to the soul, has he got one, a soul? or is he like the croc, moving and moving only, with stealth, with agenda sprung until it is about to … Continue reading