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In his recent blog post, Ben Kritz describes the utter failure of the Melissa Roxas affair to capture the sensationalist tastes of the Filipino public, much less raise any semblance of “outrage” in the United States (Melissa Roxas is a U.S. citizen). I don’t think there is anything disturbing about the Filipino public’s being desensitised [...]
Next time we lament how personality politics are so mind-numbingly relevant in the national “debate”, look no further than the esteemed “experts” who give such topics the time of day. We keep blaming politicians’ focus on their personal agendas for our society’s chronic troubles, yet take a look around the media over which the “national [...]
Having come back from a sabbatical from posting thought-provoking stuff on FilipinoVoices.com (in deference to the Boss’s guidelines), I make my triumphant return here to re-elevate the discussion from the politico-speculative drivel it’s been languishing in over the last several days. I thought I’d use resident FV trajo, (tradtional “journalist”) Ding Gagelonia‘s bit of name-dropping… [...]
Imagine getting your power supply from big 220-volt cylindrical batteries that are charged at power generating plants and then delivered to you every week by truck to be hooked up to your home’s wiring. You then load the spent battery from the previous week onto the truck which then hauls it back to the nearest [...]
I doubt if resident politico-socio-economic “expert” Abe Margallo has had the experience of going out for the night to pick up chicks. Because if he did, he’d probably appreciate the notion that you don’t get the good ones by using lines like “please hang out with me ma’am, it’s for a good cause”, or “please [...]
The search for “parallelisms”. It’s almost like a sign of desperation in the face of a consistently flaccid public response to tired and increasingly trite calls for expressions of “indignation” against the Arroyo administration. Sure sure. Gloria is “evil”. She cheated. She is a power Klingon. She is this, she is that. She is planning [...]
Allow me to start off with a famous O.B.Q. (Original benign0 Quote): The trouble with wiping dust off a mirror is that we get a clearer image of ourselves. – benign0 As such, I cannot agree more with what Norman Sison wrote in a comment on Cocoy’s brilliant piece “Missing the Point on the Road [...]
A system that is closed to external input may remain dynamic and even chaotic internally but possess surfaces that are inert and featureless to the outside observer. A cadaver is kind of like that — gray and lifeless on the outside, but teeming with enough decomposition and degradation processes on the inside to keep avid [...]
Over at Barrio Siete, Mr. Reyna Elena frets over the frightening prospect of (at the time of writing) the coming tropical cyclone that is almost sure to wreak the usual havoc on our little group of volcanic islands. Having lived in those islands myself for a big chunk of my life, I can attest to [...]
I saw the news report on Bandila last night, read a discussion thread on the topic in Peyups.com, and followed the link to the report on the Inquirer.net. Then I came back to the Peyups.com thread and posted this reaction: Good riddance. Another bunch of dumbass Caviteno hotheads bite the dust. I’m referring of course [...]
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