That’s the description of how elements of a SWAT team neutralized former ATO chief Panfilo Villaruel and Navy Lt. (sg) Richard Gatchillar after they took over the Naia control tower by gunpoint. Would it still have been overkill if, before the two were brought down, two commercial airliners collided in mid-air? And why in heaven’s [...]

Rod Skunk … er … Strunk, supposed grieving widower of murdered cultural icon, Nida Blanca, is free. A US court struck down a formal request from the Philippines to extradite The Skunk to stand trial for Blanca’s murder. As my former mentor likes to put it in situations like this: “Parehong baro, kasi! Translation: They [...]

Recently, President Gloria Arroyo publicly suggested complete reconciliation with and among her political foes. It would have sounded grand and magnanimous if it weren’t for two indisputable points. One, it’s too near the elections for it to sound sincere. GMA has a propensity for shifting all too quickly to wherever the political winds blow. She [...]

I caught a glimpse of TV network ABS-CBN’s televised anniversary concert last week. I tuned in just as they were honoring venerable comedian, Dolphy. And who did the honoring? The very funny trio: Tito, Vic and Joey. They were brought together again for this particular occasion. They’re no longer a trio now because one of [...]

Yup, it’s not only the weather in this tropical country that’s steaming nowadays. It seems new movie starlets ever so willing to disrobe before the cameras are being introduced to the public every week. For most of them, all they’re talented at is unbottoning, unzipping and unfolding, unabashedly. They can’t act, they can’t sing, they [...]