Filipinos are electing a new President. It is all too easy to be fixated on this task that we should be reminded of an equally important job we, as the sovereign, need to consider: the election of twelve new senators, half of the 24 man ‘upper’ chamber that completes our bicameral legislature. The House can [...]
Truth and lice
January 8, 2010 By 11 Comments
Whatever else can be said about the adoption of Makabayang Koalisyon ng Mamamayan (Makabayan) senatorial candidates Satur Ocampo and Liza Maza by the Nacionalista Party (NP), it is definitely nothing less than an event for the history books. After all, Ocampo and Maza are militant leftists, while the NP is a party headed by real [...]
Death by commoditisation
July 16, 2009 By 83 Comments
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 [...]
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