Tag: Greg B. Macabenta

If EDSA has become known as “carmageddon” (or the Armageddon of cars) because of the horrible traffic, Sucat Road aka as Dr. A. Santos...

A few weeks ago, I posted on Facebook two anti-drug abuse ads that I created back in 1972. The headline of one read, “Is...

It is said that if hindsight is a perfect science, that makes scientists of our country’s national leaders and bureaucrats. In administration after administration,...

Advertising is one indicator of changes in lifestyle, social mores, fashion, and language. One such development that has become apparent in US television commercials...

If you were to read The Washington Post account of President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Asia, you would sense some exasperation between the...

In the wake of President Donald Trump’s self-serving assertion that any unflattering media reports about him are “fake news,” CNN, which has been among...

It’s fascinating comparing the way the investigation of alleged wrong-doing by the Presidents of the Philippines and the United States, Rodrigo Duterte and Donald...

We should all be grateful that the war in Marawi is over. We owe the AFP and the PNP a debt of gratitude for...

Paying a visit to relatives in a small provincial town is always an interesting experience if you are a columnist desperate to find a...

Current developments in our country are bringing back the specter of martial law. President Rodrigo Duterte has given not-too-subtle hints about declaring it. And...

The similarities are too striking to ignore. Both US President Donald Trump (whom North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un called a “dotard”) and President Rodrigo Duterte...

When then presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte called His Holiness Pope Francis, “putang ina ka,” because Duterte got stuck in traffic due to the Pope’s...

I wrote a piece entitled “May Angal?” (meaning, Any Complaints) back in April, 2010 when the Filipino people felt they had enough of the...

Time was, whenever a major corruption scandal or a heinous crime exploded in the public sphere, old timers like myself followed the developments in...

I endured several hours of streaming video of the hearings being conducted by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, chaired by Sen. Dick Gordon, on...

Ad Lib By Greg B. Macabenta There is no doubt in my mind that Manny Pacquiao won against Australian Jeff Horn. The CompuBox statistics showed Pacquiao...