Factual truth-telling is not hate-mongering

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 02/24/2022

Historical revisionists would like to equate truth-telling with hate-mongering. That to tell the brutal truth is to arouse hatred among innocents, that it is stoking hatred for those who had brought harm and injury to their victims,…

The unrepentant and the unforgiving

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 02/17/2022

Before all else, let me say that someone I personally know told me that in their Caloocan City barangay, a former relocation area for informal settlers, forms are being offered for voters to fill out and sign…

Guanzon’s gambit

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 02/03/2022

In the game of chess, gambit means “an opening in which a player makes a sacrifice, typically of a pawn, for some compensating advantage.” In the game of life, it is “a device, or opening remark, typically…

Cults and ‘divinely appointed’ cult leaders

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 12/16/2021

Currently in the news is the spiritual mentor of President Duterte, self-proclaimed “appointed son of God” Pastor Apollo Quiboloy, founder of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. He is facing criminal charges in the US, namely, “conspiracy to…

PH PPE makers left out, China favored

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 11/04/2021

We are no longer getting curiouser and curiouser, to use Alice’s immortal words, just perpetually asking, why? Why the Duterte government’s preference for most anything that is China’s or Chinese-owned? (We are not referring to our Chinoys…

Online sexual abuse of kids increasing

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 10/21/2021

Unbeknownst to many of us while the COVID-19 pandemic was raging and is still in our midst is a plague of another nature that has been victimizing the young. Right now somewhere, in some hidden physical place…

Disabling the enablers

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 10/14/2021

The only thing necessary for evil to thrive is for good men to do nothing”—words from Irish statesman Edmund Burke that have become a universal reminder for those who, for reasons or no reasons of their own,…

‘Yes, I swindled, Your Honor’

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 09/30/2021

“Yes, I swindled, Your Honor” was not exactly how Pharmally executive Krizie Grace Mago phrased her admission before the Senate blue ribbon committee hearing. But in essence that was what she said for the next day’s headlines.…

The solemn task of memorializing

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 09/23/2021

When I was a Jefferson journalism fellow at the East-West Center (EWC) in Honolulu in the 1990s, getting to view the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor even just from a distance was a must for us fellows.…

View from ‘ano raw?’ republic

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 09/16/2021

Today marks the reclassification, reconfiguration, recalibration, regranulation, and other -ations of the COVID-19’s threat to our lives and livelihoods and how we should go on with our woebegone existence. Here’s how it looks on the ground to…

‘Buking’

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 09/09/2021

The word “nabuking” (which means one was discovered to have committed a misdeed or done something on the sly) comes from the Filipino root word “buking,” a latter-day derivation from “buko” (accent on the second syllable). Therefore,…

Perpetually perplexed people

Ma. Ceres P. Doyo - @inquirerdotnet 08/12/2021

Although more than a year late, a meme came out recently on social media to spread humor while lessening people’s confusion and to make sense of the jumble of letters and acronyms that restrict our movements during…

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