We beg to differ.
Long story short, the quick fix Inquirer columnist Randy David describes in his recent piece “Beyond the outrage” was tried before and it didn’t work. Calls for the president’s resignation or ouster and the installation of a national transition council or a civil-military junta aren’t options. That is, except for the leftist-militant groups which are…
The pic shown is a weird post, but maybe we can get something from it. I wrote before that the things that may actually fix our country are the “un-Filipino” values and practices, and that’s one reason corruption is hard to fix in this country. The rub is, the corruption we’ve been observing all this…
Read More “To Get Rid of Corruption, we need to Drastically Alter Filipino Culture Itself” »
Philippine society is a real class act. Its top “thought leaders” are, yet again, buzzing around yet another flypaper “issue” around — get this — institutionalised corruption at such scale as to result in massive public suffering and tragedy. What an outrage, right? But then this is, what, the Nth such outrage fad over the…
With yet another one — Uwan (Fung-wong) — coming over the next 48 hours, the Philippines had already been hit by three devastating typhoons just in the last several weeks. The most recent one, Kalmaegi had unleashed Category 5 level destruction over the Visayas reason with Cebu bearing the brunt of its violent visit. Torrential…
About 25 years ago , The Ring was doing well in the American box office. The Ring was originally a Japanese movie (1998) that did so well on its own Hollywood made their own version just like what they did with movies like Scent of a Woman and True Lies . The source material was…
Read More “The Los Angeles Dodgers Win Without A Cent Going To A Filipino” »
The Marcos Mythology Problem Ferdinand Marcos convinced an entire nation he was a war hero. For decades, his medals gleamed in history books, his valor unquestioned—until someone finally checked the American records. If you can fake being a war hero with official documents and government stamps, what else can you fake? In the Philippines, our…
Intellectual masturbation is one of the habits of the Yellowidiots. The other day, former presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda posted an essay about the need for a disruptor presidential candidate in 2028 asserting that the “next leader must be a disruptor: someone unafraid to break the old machinery of power that has long served politicians instead…
Most Filipinos don’t realize the country is drifting into becoming a failed state. Corruption is perpetrated out in the open and perpetrated by lawmakers and government officials. We borrow to finance corruption which is estimated at 40% of the budget. That is the amount lost. The new blood entering politics are the scions of political…