Ben Kritz
@benkritz.bsky.social
Columnist, TV host, and Contributing Editor at The Manila Times (https://www.manilatimes.net/). You can also find me at https://badmannersgunclub.com 🇵🇭🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇬🇱 Proud Panican 👊☕💥
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
BREAKING: The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.
PUBLIC debates fail not because people disagree, but because they often operate from entirely different realities. Some argue from evidence, while others argue from myth. Some raise legitimate policy concerns, while others circulate fabricated narratives. READ: tmt.ph/2397234
The Odyssey: Movie of the Year (so far) badmannersgunclub.com/the-odyssey-...
The Odyssey: Movie of the Year (so far) - Bad Manners Gun Club
OKAY, I’m not a clickbait merchant, and movie reviews – the same could be said of online recipes, now that I think about it – that back into the main point of the post after several paragraphs of driv...
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
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The new ERC reliability rules, in normal language
ALL of what follows, in this installment and the next, was inspired by a single comment to a Facebook post, which I will explain at the end of this column. The real “meat” of this discussion, so to sp...
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I think it's hilarious that the only reaction to Trump's pathetic attempt to elicit public sympathy with the "Iranians are trying to kill me" yarn has been, "cool, so what's the holdup? Can we help them with directions to his golf course or something?"
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Out now: The Manila Times 500 for 2026 - Bad Manners Gun Club
OUR annual business guide, the best (and I think only) one of its kind in the Philippines, The Manila Times 500 (And the next 500) finally hit the street this week. This is the 8th edition of the guid...
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Incompetent or subversive? Either way, Remulla must go
ON Monday this week, Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla publicly made two decisions that raise serious and probably unresolvable doubts about his fitness to continue serving in that office. Remulla shoul...
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Bogus Technology no. 3: Waste-to-Energy (WTE) badmannersgunclub.com/bogus-techno...
Bogus Technology no. 3: Waste-to-Energy (WTE) - Bad Manners Gun Club
WASTE-TO-ENERGY (WTE) is not literally “bogus” technology, in that it exists and is fairly widely used in developed countries. What is bogus about it is the way it is grossly oversold as an energy sol...
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Feline Update - Bad Manners Gun Club
AN update on our little four-legged, stumpy-tailed roommate: Travis arrived on the morning of Tuesday the 9th, and not surprisingly, spent about half a day being freaked out. Think how you would feel ...
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President Captain Obvious chimes in on Visayas power woes
ON Friday, it was reported that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. “ordered the Department of Energy (DOE) and other government agencies to normalize the power situation in the Visayas amid the series of ...
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I’m getting a cat, because I’m not a dick - Bad Manners Gun Club
PEOPLE here in the Philippines are often assumed to have the reputation for being rather careless with pets, particularly cats and dogs; it is commonplace to let them roam freely, and as a result, the...
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The skeleton in Bonoan’s closet badmannersgunclub.com/the-skeleton...
The skeleton in Bonoan’s closet - Bad Manners Gun Club
WITH the announcement today that an arrest warrant and hold departure order has been issued by the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court against former Dept. of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Manuel Bonona...
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Electricity rates have become an unfixable mess
OVER the past couple of weeks there has been growing irritation with increasing electricity bills, with some lawmakers, ever ready to ride whatever wave of public attention is washing past them, chimi...
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