Worm’s Eye View: The can-do spirit – but sadly misplaced
BY ROMMEL YNION
LOS ANGELES – Every time I meet Filipinos here in America, I can see that they are more optimistic than their countrymen, always...
Worm’s Eye View: Uno Mas
BY ROMMEL YNION
LAS VEGAS – On the eve of his third fight against the Panamanian slugger Roberto Duran, then 33-year-old Sugar Rey Leonard was...
Worm’s Eye View: F. Sionil Jose
BY ROMMEL YNION
I STUMBLED recently upon F. Sionil Jose’s indictment of our political environment:
“I remember what the historian William Henry Scott told me —...
Worm’s Eye View: Damaged Culture
BY ROMMEL YNION
LOS ANGELES – If we need proof of our “damaged culture”, then there is no clearer proof than how media pooh-poohed Bong...
Worm’s Eye View: Secret of the Ages
BY ROMMEL YNION
THE tomb of Hermes was, no doubt, the repository of ancient knowledge and wisdom; and legend has it that when it was opened by archeologists,...
Worm’s Eye View: Cause and effect
BY ROMMEL YNION
MILLIONS of words have already been written about the pork barrel scam and, matter-of-factly, we never planned to add more to them...
Worm’s Eye View: The Innovators
BY ROMMEL YNION
IF the Americans had “The Innovators” who built their country from the ground up, what do we Filipinos have?
“The Men Who Built...
Worm’s Eye View: The Summas
BY ROMMEL YNION
THIS was sometime in 1989 when I was just struggling to find myself, my direction, and my destiny.
I was an eccentric twenty-year-old...
Worm’s Eye View: Muckraking 101
BY ROMMEL YNION
AS they say, ignorance is bliss. And how I wish I was as ignorant as most journalists today so I could, at...
Worm’s Eye View: Drilon Bridge
BY ROMMEL YNION
LEST I be misconstrued as the epitome of parachute journalism, let me underscore that I am no expert in Iloilo City’s history.
My...