"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence."
--Christopher Hitchens
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- If he were not a "promdi" (from the province), Ismael "Mike" Sueno would have survived the power struggle in the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).
“No violence, gentlemen--no violence, I beg of you! Consider the furniture!”
― Arthur Conan Doyle
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Friendship ends where attraction to sex objects begins.
There are quarrels among some macho du jours in government that are job-related and not necessarily sparked by a tug-of-war on nymphets like in the case of playboys Bebot Alvarez and Tonyboy Floirendo.
"Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain."
--Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- "You crazies and sons of a whore leave us alone. Don't impose your culture on us."
President Rodrigo "Digong" Duterte's curt message to the European Union (EU) and the United Nations (UN) is also an attack on a lingering colonialism in the criticism of his administration's bloody assault on narcotics by non-Filipinos.
“Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at.”
-- Murray N. Rothbard
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Government, back off.
If it is better for business, by extension it is better for society as a whole.
Under the principle of laissez-faire, a French economic theory, business will be better off if there is less government involvement in free market capitalism.
"Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community."
-- Simon Mainwaring
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- We won't be surprised if President Rodrigo Duterte will next invite detained Senator Leila de Lima for a dinner after Vice President Leni Robredo.
"And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park."
--Christo
"I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that."
-- Barack Obama
"The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"
-- SIGMUND FREUD
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY – The research made for over 20 years by Evelyn Reed (1905-1979) on Woman’s Evolution, the book dubbed as “an impressive and absorbing reconstruction of human history” by Sociology, will give us a profound understanding why she became a veteran socialist.
