Not too much went on today. I worked in the morning. Epril cooked sweet and sour pork for lunch. The black fly population seems to have hatc...

Today Epril and I rode to Duka Bay Resort to join the Eagles Club for their Family Togetherness Day. It is about 50 miles further down the ...

They took the Total Eclipse Of The Heart and gave it lyrics that better-match the video. Absolutely brilliant stuff... and hysterical.

Yes, it's real. It's a moth with a foot-long wingspan. Mike in the comments tells us that this is an Atlas Moth .

Albert Dermott (the mouth-breathing doofus of Thomas Hunt / Grace Songcuya / Janelaze Songcuya fame) has been visiting my blog and leaving a...

With the upcoming Supreme Court nomination, Republicans are pointing out that nominee Judge Sotomayor has had her decisions reversed by the ...

I had an okay morning of work. For lunch, The Harem (Epril, Ednil, Susan, and Fatima) and I walked to the market where I bought a rather lar...

Today being Sunday, I only did half a day's work. Then we had lunch of bar-be-que chicken and Jil's World Famous Fried Rice. (Potato...

Shazam . Chen wanted to kill himself because he had 2 million yuan ($294,000) in debt after a failed construction project, Xinhua reported. ...

In what can only be described as a win-win development, loud-mouthed media stars are volunteering to be waterboarded (fun to watch) and are...

Tyson in his doghouse... an old cabinet off in a corner. Work went okay in the morning. Tyson has been become my new matutinal aide, coming...

An auditor from the state government has come to Cagayan De Oro's city hall to check and make sure that all of the city's books are ...

The internet went out while I was on my lunch break. (I made Jil's World Famous Fried Rice for lunch.) Without any work to do, I decided...

Republican Reality : People (i.e. you, apparently) are angry that homeless shelters are spending government money on fancy meals for the hom...

Usually when you see old videos from the 1950s and 1960s that try to predict the future, you get girls with beehive hairdos, tin-foil boots,...

There is a discernible correlation between creativity and people who opt to leave their home country in order to seek new experiences by liv...

A fair day of work today, but I got started quite late. That's been my main problem recently: Getting started at work nice and early. ...

Next time come to The Philippines? A British man is facing 2 years in a Thai jail after being "rude" to Thai immigration official...

Epril and Tyson seem to be collaborating in an effort to get me to put the same louche photo on the internet time and again. A couple more i...

Contestants for Miss Bikini 2009. Photo courtesy of Gold Star Daily. In order to please as many uptight people as possible... and bore the r...

Kano meth addict in police custody. Photo courtesy of Gold Star Daily. If you are a foreigner and a methamphetamine addict in The Philippine...

Girls in Cebu beg police to allow them to return to the jobs they were "rescued" from: Dancing in bikinis for some appreciative f...

Committing crime in a small town is never a good idea. Regarding the burglar that broke into our house, Susan called my father-in-law (who i...

Read this . It's common knowledge that the popularity or success of the person who is President when one turns 18 has a strong bearing o...

Obama has just appointed the Mormon, Republican Governor of Utah (a millionaire businessman, fluent in Mandarin) to be the Ambassador to Chi...

I wrote a couple of days ago that the young actor from Slumdog Millionaire was still living in the slum from which he was hired for his rol...

One of the new ideas (.pdf) being bandied about by Congress is a $4,500 voucher that will be given to any person or business who is going t...

Okay, I know you're wondering what this is about or why it is important. You know my saying, "Remember kids, there are people out t...

No really . Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and The Rush Limbaugh Show all actually took the time to make fun of the fact that Obama ordered ...

Work has not been going well lately. I'm annoyed most at the fact that it seemed to be smoothing out and picking up quite nicely there f...

A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an extraordinary special session next week, it will...

Now that Thomas Hunt is dead and buried, the media spotlight has turned to Hunt's adulterous wife, Janelaze, and her lover Albert Dermot...

Tyson taking a much needed rest from guard duty.

We got the electric bill today: 7,000 pisos... about $140. (That's compared to $90 when we were at Camilla homes.) I'm really surpri...

Jasaan's police investigators take photos of the window that the burglar crashed through. (Title taken from the anonymous comment left h...

My jungle perch has windows on all 4 sides, and they are all thrown open when I am up here. Just now, a bird about the size of a robin came ...

Right wing fantasy : President Obama is acting "like the king of the world" by ordering Paramount to deliver him his own personal...

It's Mother's Day in case you didn't know it. A Happy Mothers Day wish to all those mothers for whom I care and love! As is tra...

Epril and I went into Cagayan De Oro today. After 3 months, my motorcycle was finally ready to be picked up and taken home to Jasaan. I tol...

Herbie Gomez and his Gold Star Daily Newspaper today has published a second article on the Thomas Hunt and Grace Songcuya story . The Mayor ...

I was quoted extensively in the second Hunt-Songcuya article today. I tried to get a plug for the blog in the newspaper so that my quotes w...

CBCP has an article up talking about a new effort to "teach" kids here in Cagayan De Oro not to go into the sex trade. Good idea:...