watch now
More articles about: opinion
.png)
Read this first.
I was mindlessly scrolling my social media feed over the weekend (which I really ought to stop doing, but that’s another story) when I chanced upon a photo of a guy who looked like a student eating alone at a restaurant or ...
Funny how Filipinos have higher standards for basketball games and beauty pageants. We excuse public officials lying, plundering, and underperforming, but we draw the line on bad coaching. Now what does that say about us?
The parade of boos that would echo from the arenas during the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup were directed at one man. And we all knew who he was. Head Coach Chot Reyes bore the brunt of the Gilas Pilipinas losses during ...
.png)
“I would love to see Filipinos cheer not only for winners, but for all Filipino athletes.”
Let’s address the elephant in the room. The athletes that represented the Philippines in football and basketball don’t look like the average Filipino. Many of them didn’t grow up or even live full time in the Philippines today. Let me be clear: being ...
Adobo is an easy Filipino dish, it’s hard to f*ck it up.
Coming on the heels of Rachel Ray’s disastrous spectacle of cooking adobo, we reflect on why foreign celebrity chefs often get the Filipino adobo very wrong. It’s not the first time a famous chef screwed up on adobo: In August 2022, American ...
.png)
Why are you offended, really?
When I first saw the video of drag artist Pura Luka Vega performing to a remix version of "Ama Namin" surrounded by a small crowd, my mind immediately went to Mideo Cruz in 2011. In case you need a refresher, Cruz is an ...
.jpg)
You've got a dictator in Moscow, a dictator in Minsk (who is a faithful bondsman to the one in Moscow), and an unrepentant mercenary warlord who may be playing both sides against himself.
I won't pretend that I understand what in the hell is going on in Russia, except to point out that, Communist, Tsarist, or kleptocrat, Russia behaves exactly the same, and commits exactly the same colossal fck-ups in exactly the same way. For ...
.jpeg)
A cold hard look at the economics of corporate celebrations of queer people.
A few days before the Pride celebrations last weekend, I received a press release from the popular toothpaste brand Close-Up. It was about their Pride art installation in different parts of Metro Manila. Featuring portraits of over 150 queer couples, the brand’s ...
.jpeg)
This week reminds us that 300 lives in one sea can count for less than five lives in another.
It's tempting to be as cynical as The Onion was on Wednesday when trying to figure out what to take from the Titanic submersible disaster: "Emergency Crews Dispatched To Help Boat Full Of Refugees Sink." Or, alternately: "Critics Say Submersible Should’ve Been Tested With Poorer Passengers First." ...
.png)
Did what happen make you feel happy or satisfied?
I’ve always known the internet can be incredibly vile and venomous—a place where people display the absolute worst of humanity on a daily basis, and everybody else just goes along and even gives a thumbs-up or haha react like it’s no big ...