Thank God for the mikes and cameras shoved into Ces Drilon’s face (with Loren Legarda’s mug constantly edging in within camera view to boot). We get a raw, down-and-dirty account straight from the horse’s mouth about what it was REALLY all about for her. It puts into context what Patricio said in an earlier comment: [...]
A crisis of priorities
May 30, 2008 By 5 Comments
Pinoy nga naman talaga. True enough. As expected. In usual form. The rice crisis and the coven of demons that plague our little Third World islands it uncovered — overpopulation and lack of food security among others — has since been relegated to the proverbial Page 4 of the Philippine Media; like the killer mudslides [...]
Can Filipinos Learn Something from Icelanders?
May 19, 2008 By 10 Comments
UK’s Guardian has an article by John Carlin on why Iceland has the happiest People on Earth. According to Carlin, the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Index ranks Iceland— society and economy (in terms of health and education) on top of the world. The irony is that Iceland, now the best country in the [...]
Music to my Ears, A Joy to Read
May 10, 2008 By 10 Comments
Overseas Filipinos are forming a national political party in preparation for the 2010 elections and beyond, it was revealed at the Global Filipino Nation (GFN) conference Friday.
Francisco “Jun” Aguilar, interim chairman of the Partido ng Pandaigdigang Pilipino (PPP or Party of the Global Filipino), said the party is in the process of complying with the requirements of the Commission on Elections.
“The Philippines” – a meaningless concept
May 5, 2008 By 24 Comments
I read Marck’s Tyranny and the Image with interest, specifically when it came to the passage: “politics in this country is not a “personality cult,” but a “cult of imagery”. I thought, well, in fairness to Pinoy society (and I’m a bit out-of-character here), the power of images had been demonstrated in so many forms [...]
Being proud to be Pinoy: Not as easy as we think
April 24, 2008 By 23 Comments
We cannot be proud of something that we don’t have, are not, or will never have, much less something that does not mean anything (like being proud for pride’s sake, for instance). To therefore understand why all these calls to be “proud to be Pinoy” seem to ring hollow nowadays, we have to revisit the [...]
Power Not by Desire, But By Right
April 22, 2008 By 6 Comments
Elliot S. Maggin penned in 1997: “Our proper response to the inexorable march of progress that has brought us to this place and time in the history of civilization is to find a way to confront it responsibly. Not modestly. Not unself-consicously. Not with faith in a power greater than ours to descend from the [...]
Make our justice system work
Everyone’s angry about what had happened to those bank personnel who were mercilessly killed by obviously evil people. Who wouldn’t, when the crime was committed in cold blood; and what could be more worst than deliberate murder?