The worst case in a presidential election without Sara Duterte on the ballot is for the incipient coalition to fragment, with each group or party retreating into its purity cocoon and fielding its own candidate. The resulting free-for-all could still favor a Duterte candidate....
Those in the room who had shared piano bars and karaoke nights with Pete had heard him sing countless times, but never because someone asked. This evening belonged to him....
The calls of nature seem to grow most urgent whenever the prosecution reaches for the bank records and asks a witness to verify its existence. Nakakaihi nga yata ang revelations....
Record collecting is a personal, irrational human endeavor. That’s an admission against interest or an insanity plea. It lets you inhabit a private space of chosen decades, genres, or artists. It’s also a vow of self-inflicted poverty....
