A RECENT survey result showed that Filipino voters may consider integrity over experience when choosing their candidates for the 2010 elections.

“OUR planet is filled with heroes, young and old, rich and poor, man, woman of different colors, sha

EFREN Peñaflorida brought honor to the country by winning the CNN Hero of the Year award.

I HAD heard they could weigh 220 kilos, sometimes 350 kilos.

Was it truth stretched, or some old wives’ tale?

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña and opposition leader Atan Guardo have an ongoing public conversation or chat, a Q-and-A, an accusation-countercharge exercise.

THERE has been intermittent debate on merits of kissing with open or closed eyes.

TO “COME out,” versus to languish “in the closet,” liberates lesbians, gays, bisexuals and

IS RENE Buac still functioning as regional director of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) 7?

THE opposition to the Osmeñas in Cebu City should be excited by the possible candidacy of Winston Garcia for mayor. Winston’s entry will definitely strengthen the opposition camp.

UNTIL last week, Tarlac was always to me just “along the way” en route to Baguio.

A project there answered my prayers. I finally got to visit the Aquino Center in Tarlac City.

YOU better watch out, you better not cry.

Get the right carolers.

“THE vice-presidency is as useful as a cow’s fifth teat,” Harry Truman snorted when friends pressed him to seek the post.

BACK in my younger days, we had a club called Maspo. It is an acronym but I will refrain from spelling out what it stands for because this is not a “For Adults Only” publication.

“YOU know, you really look like Melanie Lim,” someone gently tells me at the gym. It was the last thing I expected to hear.

IN THE age of borderless connections, we celebrate disconnecting.

Around Christmas, the New Oxford American Dictionary announces its Word of the Year (WOTY).