ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin As we slowly crawl out of our caves and begin to feel the first rays of normalcy in two years, many are now waking up to the sobering reality here, which is: the damage created by the pandemic response may turn out to be an even bigger killer than the actual pandemic....
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Well that was sudden. After two years of draconian lockdowns and mandates, it took less than 24 hours for the global narrative to fall apart and even less time for every internet epidemiologist to become an expert in foreign policy and war. RIP COVID; long live...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Three words that recently broke the internet. So much so, that even Google, the self proclaimed arbiters of truth and default online moral compass of the World Wide Web, couldn’t censor it fast enough. It all started after Dr. Robert Malone, one of the inventors of...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin 2021 started out quite hopeful for me. Despite nine months of hard lockdown and massive financial losses, restrictions had eased a little, businesses and tourist spots were slowly opening their doors to a weary and beaten public looking to welcome in a new year, and...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Yes there are private islands and private beach resorts –– Jeffrey Epsiten and his cohorts famously showed the world that –– but the question that keeps coming up, especially as we start to travel again and people head out to get some much-needed Vitamin Sea,...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Last September, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender; two months later, just last Friday, their president, Nayib Bukele, shocked the world once again with the announcement of Bitcoin City –– a digital investor’s...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Yesterday, Presidential candidate, Mayor Isko Moreno Domagoso announced that the City of Manila would be the latest city, following Davao, Ormoc and Iloilo, to turn their back on the highly divisive face shield for public use. Over a year after the IATF made them...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Calling all parents. Are you looking for the scariest Halloween costume for your kids? If you live in an area of the un-woke, you might want to consider dressing them up like the culture police. Let me explain. Yesterday, the verified Twitter account of the...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Let me just start by saying that, in my humble opinion, I think Ramon Ang has done more for our country than any other private or corporate citizen, especially during the pandemic. I’m not sure if that is factually correct, but it is how I––and I’m sure most...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Yesterday, I went to a fast-food joint on the highway. The drive thru looked like it was backed up to mid 2022 so I went inside the restaurant and walked up to the counter––which I noticed when driving past was empty. Thought I found the perfect hack! The cashier...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin By late August, I had almost doubled my modest investment in crypto on an exchange called Binance, while my eToro had lost about a hundred dollars during around the same amount of time. Now I know that four months is not a long enough time to judge the stock market,...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Just when you thought they couldn’t go any lower, it seems like the passport appointment fixers are back and scalping reservation spots to desperate Filipinos looking to renew their passports. And yes, I know this topic has come up many times over the years, but to...
