Roman Surtida

"Am I angry at Ressa? Certainly I am. With Leni Robredo and Loida Nicolas-Lewis, she has portrayed us these past six years as cowards fearful of Duterte, unmindful of the "27,000" Filipinos he has killed — and personally profiting from her lies immensely." manilatimes.net/2022/07/01/opi…

In this long-awaited conversation, Billy sits down with Courtney Love on The Magnificent Others. Watch now. youtube.com/watch?v=6qlxyG…

Sa inyo pa lang hirap na Pinas, magta-Trump ka pang hinayupak ka.

Iran war’s hidden bombshell: The collapse of the OFW safety valve manilatimes.net/2026/04/01/opi…

Konstantin Kisin: "One of the terrible things about wokeness is it got people addicted to victimhood."

I saw this movie when it first premiered and loved it. I watched it again recently and was shocked by how well it holds up. It works because they turned a film with an absurd premise (mutant sewer-dwelling turtle-ninjas, mentored by a rat) into a timeless story about the importance of family: Master Splinter (the rat) is the Sage archetype, and a father figure for the adolescent turtles, and @Heyjude629 smartly plays April O'Neil as a tough, stabilizing maternal force. Shredder, the villain, is the Dark Father. The film reveals early on that his Foot Clan is, like many gangs, comprised entirely of wayward teenage boys. The story resolves only after the titular heroes learn to unite under the leadership of their father. Only then can the Shredder be defeated (and his young male followers shown a better way). Because the animatronics and puppetry are so exquisite, suspension of disbelief is much easier than it would be with expensive but alienating CGI. The film feels more "real" because all this work was done by humans, not by computers. The reason there's so much nostalgia for decades past--and why so much media from the past enjoys popularity today--is that no matter how young you are you feel the emptiness of modern society, and part of that emptiness you feel is the result of a mechanized pop culture created by cynical people who are ideologically hostile to everything that makes life worth living.

@edrlopez youtube.com/shorts/_T_e5rJ…

"The situation will be more urgent by the day. We will not be entertained by PR statements. We want to see a workable and comprehensive national survival plan."

"All the solutions offered so far seem to rely on spreading the pain to businesses as a means to score brownie points with consumers. We could see businesses fail, magnifying the economic damage."

"Government is leaning on their operators to postpone price adjustments. That means they will not earn expected revenues and possibly fail to finance their loans. In which case, our banking system suffers down the road." philstar.com/opinion/2026/0…

Copland

You know, that image makes those Illuminati/Luciferian conspiracy theories about celebrities a little bit more plausible.

Kaya pa ihabol yan.

Nothing is much better than a cup of hot coffee or tea on a cold night, and an entertaining novel to read.

The year of the horse began for the administration on March 11, 2025. This is what Banayo seems to be saying. Since then it's been compounded by the flood control scam and the conflict in the Middle East. The flood control investigations are dead in the manilastandard.net/?p=314721637

I feel sorry for BBM...his subordinates are sabotaging his PH-China reset policy.

"We have no effective channel with Iran. Why would Tehran accommodate us as it did Thailand if we are US puppets; we also have limited influence in the Gulf and, crucially, strained relations with China, the country that now sits at the center of Middle Eastern energy flows..."

"The Philippines once again finds itself in a familiar position: highly exposed, yet with very little leverage."

Iran war shows anti-China stance to be stupid manilatimes.net/2026/03/30/opi…