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Speak now or forever hold your peace: questions I want to bombard candidates with

Those familiar with contracts involving hiring a company to do a specific job for a specified period of time know of the phrase scope of work, and when making decisions on which company to choose from there often is the list of activities that the companies will offer for the contract price. Why can’t we do [...]

Candidate Debates, Philippines? It’s High Time, People — Let’s See Who Has Balls Enough.

The headlines in recent news has this little gem, Presidential campaign gets more pointed as a result of the Kilalanin! forum held recently. My take: good enough for starters, but I want more. See, if there’s anything that watching the news could be teaching us, the value of presidential debates — hell, candidate debates for any position, [...]

Electrons, Pixels, and Pesos – A look at online campaign finance

The grass is greener on the other side of the digital divide, but not much attention has been given on the costs of online advertising, especially such campaigns for the benefit of political candidates. Taking off from the theme of previous posts Politics in the Age of AdSense — A View of the Political Campaign Landscape [...]

Campaign Ads and Election Spending: Getting a Layman’s Sense of the Spending

With virtually no limits on advertising — except for election spending — the PR people of candidates have pretty much free rein in the type of marketing that they can use to present their candidate in the best possible light. The law is clear on the limits, and the penalties for violating the law are [...]

Politics in the Age of AdSense — A View of the Political Campaign Landscape Online

Aspirants to political office know that the key to electoral victory is to have their names to be top of mind and favorably so, and in a manner not too different from selling haircare products and laundry detergent they must themselves be marketed in a positive light. However, the Philippines’ laws and customs being what [...]

Melissa Roxas: Pieces of the Puzzle

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(This post is an excerpt.) In this post we’re going to try to glean what little we can from Melissa Roxas’ affidavit, in hopes that this information can reach those who may be able to help. Maybe you good folks can do the same? Paging the US State Department — get off your asses and [...]

Ang Mamatay Ng Dahil Sa ‘Yo?

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Put a caption to this picture — seen made in honor of Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao: WTF.

The Stupidification of the Filipino — Bureau of Customs Deliberately Hindering Our Opportunities to Read?

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UPDATE: Do read The Great Book Blockade of 2009: Timeline and Readings for in-depth coverage. Kudos to MLQ3. A couple of days ago, I read this post The Great Book Blockade of 2009 and ended up being yet again pissed off at the stupidity of government agencies. But let the post speak for itself. Quoting [...]

Yeah. Whatever.

Let’s get one thing straight: blogging is NOT journalism, and never will be. That is, not until each individual blogger establishes his own PCIJ. (Okay, sweeping generalization, but once you take away the few exceptions you’ll find that the bell curve will bear me out.) I have long found discussions on the distinctions between mainstream [...]

Federalism, the Canadian Experience — What Can We Learn?

Videos taken from the “Dialogues on Federalism” forum, held November 28, 2008, 10 AM to 12 NN, at the University of the Philippines Diliman NCPAG. The speaker that morning was a member of Canada’s Senate, Senator Sharon Carstairs, who was introduced by Senator Aquilino Pimentel, jr. The host was Dean Alex Brillantes of the College [...]