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What is it now? Week Three since Noynoy Aquino became a potential “presidentiable”, and maybe Week Two since Mar Roxas dropped out of the race to make way? And still the candidate in question is holed up somewhere waiting for the Voice of God to reveal His Will? Come on now, dude. Grow a couple. [...]
Here’s a quick status update on our efforts to come up with a manifesto on what “The Filipino” stands for which we started a while back. Last time I explored the topic, I had two catchphrases that, at the time, I thought pretty much made a comprehensive and exhaustive coverage of what it means to [...]
It is half-official now. Mar Roxas (one of the politicians who has the most highly-developed platform among them) has stepped back to set the stage for Aquino (a politician who has a virtually non-existent platform) to run for president. Pending the results of some sort of “retreat” that the son-of-heroes will be taking to mull [...]
First Noynoy Aquino drafts the memory of his parents’ “heroism” into the service of his budding presidential aspirations (as if being an offspring of a hero necessarily makes you one as well — but then Filipino voters tend to eat up horseshit like that). Now he outdoes even that by going further to hijack a [...]
The prospect of ANOTHER Erap presidency strikes fear into the hearts of both the truly- and pseudo-enlightened lot of Pinoy society. Me? I’m all for an Erap presidency. That way we settle ONCE AND FOR ALL what a big load of crap all our “expert” poets have been waxing about this romantic notion of “the [...]
And I thought it was bad enough that the Philippines already is a mediocracy. BongV’s recent article highlights the inescapable reality of the Philippines’ descent into an idiocracy. “Idiocracy” is a term used as a title in the 2006 movie by Mike Judge where (quoting from a movie review by Mike Adams) the world seen [...]
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This morning I posted a comment on Reyna Elena‘s rapidly up-and-coming collective blog Barrio Siete (BS), and it went like this: Again, the question arises everytime some bozo-poltician comes up and announces their “candidacy” for this or that office (Whatever that may be): Platform, plez™. If they cannot produce then they merely aim to insult [...]
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Interesting that blogger Reyna Elena has recently decided to support a call for the venerable Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (JAZA) to run for President. I find it interesting because I see this as a real good case study — something that we can potentially follow from inception in a way not coloured by the [...]
It’s quite ironic that following Filipinos’ renewed admiration of the virtues of simplicity embodied in the late former president Corazon Aquino, the issue of the moment raging across the Philippine Media landscape is President Gloria Arroyo and company’s $20,000 dinner in New York City following her one-hour meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama. But where [...]
I can relate with a comment that political blogger sparks made recently: I’ve long accepted I’m a cultural minority in this country. My values are so out of sync from everyone else’s. [benign0] doesn’t believe in the limits placed by structures and social forces. I’ll cite you one example – born of a family of [...]
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