Choose to be healthy, happy and good in 2021 By Al S. Mendoza LIFE is choices. That’s an adage as old as gambling. Gambling is that old? Of course. Didn’t Eve gamble in the Garden of Eden? As the book said, Eve was seduced by the snake up an…
A David in Gatchalian giving Goliath hell By Al S. Mendoza PUBLIC service is a public trust. That’s the backbone of democracy. That’s looking at someone entrusted with power from the people. That’s a saying as old as lightning and thunder. But is that being followed to the letter…
Ginebra win a soothing balm amid pandemic By Al S. Mendoza BARANGAY Ginebra made multiple records in winning the PBA Philippine Cup on Wednesday. By scoring a series-clinching 82-78 Game 5 victory for a 4-1 Finals triumph over TNT Tropang Giga, Ginebra scored its first All-Filipino crown since 2007….
Order of vaccination must be strictly enforced By Al S. Mendoza BREAKING NEWS: LeBron James has signed for a two-year pact worth $85 million with the Los Angeles Lakers, the team he had just powered to the NBA championship past the Miami Heat. That deal is roughly P4.5 billion! How many 35-year-olds…
Biden giving hope to Filipino immigrants? By Al S. Mendoza THERE is reason to rejoice for Filipinos still not totally settled in the U.S. Meaning, those with loose immigration papers may yet realize their American dream soon: Become either American citizens or permanent residents in the U.S. When it…
It happened again, and it will happen again By Al S. Mendoza HERE we go again. Floods have submerged many parts of Luzon by typhoons Quinta, Rolly and Ulysses, as if the trio conspired to wreak havoc on this poor part of the globe. Again, lives were lost, crops…
Biden to inherit a damaged White House By Al S. Mendoza BEFORE Joe Biden was elected president of the United States on November 4 (PHL time), he served the American government for 47 years. If there’s one American politician soaked in public service almost half of his life—and counting—it’s…
America’s insane system of presidential election By Al S. Mendoza DID Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump in the United States presidential election on November 4 (PHL time)? Umm. Lemme see. Democrat Biden, the 77-year-old challenger, was leading Trump, 74, as we went to press. Biden was enjoying a 253-213…
With Dodgers’ win, Los Angeles completes Slam By Al S. Mendoza LOS Angeles just scored a Grand Slam of sorts. And what kind of a Slam is that? It won both the NBA crown and the World Series plum in the same year. Both are world championships in basketball…
Fragile is the PBA bubble amid the pandemic By Al S. Mendoza THE referees recently grabbed the spotlight in the PBA restart—in a rather negative way. First, a referee has been sent home not by COVID-19 but by Commissioner Willie Marcial himself. Second, another referee got himself sidelined when…
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