About

The Bad Manners Gun Club is a concept I first imagined about 40 years ago, and found its first expression in a laughably amateur but sincere one-off literary magazine I browbeat my English teacher into letting me produce during my senior year in high school. The medium is obviously different now, but the perspective is still the same: question everything, even if it offends someone, because the truth doesn't care about your feelings. 

I am, officially, a Contributing Editor and Columnist for The Manila Times, which is the oldest daily newspaper in the Philippines -- founded about two months before the Treaty of Paris that ended the Spanish-American War and 350 or so years of Spanish colonial rule here -- and the third-oldest English-language newspaper in Asia. In addition to my Rough Trade column (which appears on Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday each week), I write three of the The Manila Times' daily editorials every week, and do occasional in-depth news articles, special features, and one-on-one interviews broadcast on The Manila Times' streaming channel. I am also the moderator of most of The Manila Times' monthly forums, which cover a wide range of topics, as well as the editor of The Manila Times 500, an annual magazine that provides a comprehensive guide to the Philippine business sector. I've also published a book on nuclear energy, and I'm writing what I hope will be my first novel. 

A note of caution to sensitive readers: You will find a great deal of profanity in most posts here, although I do endeavor to use it correctly. There are two reasons for this; first, as this is my personal blog, I see no reason not to talk like I normally do when I am not in professional mode. Second, many AI content scrapers can be blocked by the inclusion of profanity in a text, and since AI is evil and must be destroyed, I am only too happy to trip those programs up in whatever way I can.