We beg to differ.
Think of what it takes to sustain human civilisation at the standards of living we believe that everyone is entitled to. Have we stopped to think what it would mean for a billion Chinese people, say, to have access to a standard of living equivalent to that enjoyed by Western Europe and North America today?…
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All of a sudden a whole bunch of celebrities known more for their non-intellectual “assets” than anything else are embroiling themselves in a national “issue” that confounds even the best minds in the Philippine “intelligentsia”. Across the Philippine media landscape, we get disparate reports of Jinkee Pacquiao’s contraceptive pill popping, Pacquiao-mother “Mommy Dionisia” lashing out…
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Unfortunately, the much-promoted “debate” between boxing champ Manny Pacquiao and House Minority Leader Edcel Lagman — billed “PacMAN vs LagMAN” — aired on ABS-CBN’s Harapan (literally “face-off”) was inaccessible from Australia. But it does not really take a genius to imagine how such a spectacle might have transpired. Blogger Joe America in a recent comment…
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Perhaps former California Governor and body building champ Arnold Schwarzenegger should have taken safe sex tips from modern-day boxing champ Manny Pacquiao. Whereas Mrs Manny Pacquiao, Jinkee, has been quite public about her being on the Pill (despite her Congressman husband’s more fundamentalist stance on the matter), apparently a woman Schwarzenegger had a tryst with…
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Over at ProPinoy.net, blogger Doy Santos presents a comprehensive statistical picture of religious fervor in the Philippines. According to Santos’s figures the Philippines counts itself among the Top Ten countries with populations that have the highest rated “confidence in their church”. This Top Ten is predominantly Islamic. Tanzania is reckoned to be 50-50 Christian/Islamic and,…
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A short time ago, I recall how the sport of boxing was described by no less than Bishop Dinualdo Gutierrez of Marbel, South Cotabato in the Philippines as “un-Christian” and that when one boxes with a person he may as well be “boxing the Holy Spirit.” Bizarre as this analogy may be, that is a…
We are seeing interesting times today as it seems like roles have been reversed for the first time in the last several decades. The Philippine Roman Catholic Church descended into a very public tantrum following hints from President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III that calls for a boycott on paying taxes made by some Church officials…
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Everyone loves a drama and everyone loves the martyr in said drama. That is if by “everyone” we mean Filipinos — a people renowned for their addiction to the telenovelas and teleserye that proliferate in mainstream media. As such it is not surprising that our “noble” men-in-robes now play the victim card in the on-going…
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