Month: July 2015

What REALLY happened to that Mitsubishi Strada pickup hanging off the Skyway rails

July 9, 2015 benign0 23 Comments

It’s going viral and people have been re-posting and re-sharing it. But what’s not being included in the information accompanying these posts is some much-needed insight or analysis on how a Mitsubishi Strada pickup truck ended up precariously hanging off the rails of the Skyway, an elevated highway south of Manila’s central business district yesterday….

Culture, Lifestyle

The Aquinos helped create the Binay dynasty

July 9, 2015July 10, 2015 Ilda 21 Comments

A lot of Filipinos do not like the Binay family. Some people see the Binays as a force to reckon with. Some hate them so much they see the Binays as monsters. There are also some groups devoted to stopping their rise to become the most powerful family in the Philippines. The Binays do not…

Crime, Culture, Government, Politics, Society

On Maria Ozawa and Philippine Sexuality

July 9, 2015July 9, 2015 Grimwald 4 Comments

Well, the Maria Ozawa fever is starting to really rise what with the hype with her upcoming film with Filipino action star Robin Padilla which will be entitled Nilalang. Her rising popularity in the Philippines can be seen with the many parody articles involving both her and so-called “Queen of All Media” Kris Aquino. While most…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Religion, Society

The Philippine Media and Its Broken Sense of Morals

July 8, 2015July 11, 2015 Grimwald 74 Comments

Thank you very much Kate Natividad for another enlightening article. I also recommend you read one of the first articles I’ve written here at GRP about homosexuality and homophobia as well as one of my more recent pieces. Please take note that I’m not writing this article to judge or condemn anyone. If anything, I am writing…

Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Why Disrespect for Laws Continues to Cripple the Philippines

July 8, 2015July 8, 2015 Grimwald 16 Comments

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to lay it before you now that I have never really been a big fan of the Philippine legislative sector and the laws it churns out. I am willing to admit to the fact that I am an anarchist in a sense that I have always looked down on the…

Culture, Development, Government, Society

Lewd Vice Ganda billboards full of naked men offends Cebu morality police!

July 8, 2015July 8, 2015 Kate Natividad 4 Comments

What was the management of ABS-CBN thinking posting this supposedly “lewd” billboard promoting Filipino gay celebrity Vice Ganda’s concert in Cebu? Well, if we go by the current politically-correct thinking, it was thinking normal thoughts. Encouraging homosexuals to “express their sexuality” is kinda the in thing nowadays, I heard. So I suppose we really cannot…

Civics, Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Society

The Greek financial crisis is really a simple issue

July 7, 2015 benign0 62 Comments

The financial crisis gripping Greece is really not that complicated. Greece opted to join the Eurozone and replace its local currency, the drachma, with the euro in 2001. Its government then started tapping the Eurozone financial market taking out euro-denominated loans as part of its normal course of doing business. However, underneath all that, Greece’s…

Development, Economy

Moral Myopia: The Source Of All Bigotry

July 6, 2015 Grimwald 5 Comments

There have been many ideas and accusations being thrown around because of the word “bigotry”. In my latest article about my stance on gay marriage, there have been a disappointing number of commenters who not only failed to understand what was being said, but also failed to even think about what was being said. It has occurred…

Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Society, The South