Year: 2015

CJ Sereno may have a point but Binay lawyers are still Correct!

April 28, 2015 Hector Gamboa 19 Comments

Last week, Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno scolded Makati Mayor Junjun Binay’s lawyers for basing their case on a “wrong doctrine”. The doctrine in question, is the Aguinaldo doctrine, which the Philippine Supreme Court itself has established and implemented since 1959. Justices Antonio Carpio and Estela Perlas-Bernabe held a much more level-headed view of raising…

Government, Politics

Would you vote Dingdong Dantes into the Philippine Senate in 2016?

April 27, 2015 Kate Natividad 24 Comments

The Inquirer reports that Dantes joins celebrity politicians Quezon City Mayor Herbert ‘Bistek’ Bautista and Manila Vice Mayor Isko Moreno in the Liberal Party’s senatorial lineup for the coming elections when 12 of 24 Senate seats will be up for grabs. So what has Dingdong done? Well, for one, he married actress Marian Rivera in…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Politics, Society

Sugar Addiction of Common Pinoys

April 27, 2015 Grimwald 15 Comments

I regularly browse the information found on Tvtropes.org as I like to find something interesting to use in my own works. What makes me sad is that many members of Pinoy mainstream media probably haven’t even heard of Tvtropes, let alone know of its contents. From what rsurtida has said so far, it’s not likely that the…

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

Philippine media’s role in the castration of the Pinoy mind

April 26, 2015 rsurtida 18 Comments

Problems and conflicts are the driving forces behind a good story. The bigger and seemingly impossible the odds against the protagonist, the better the story. It’s the virtual lifeblood of every classic story, novel, legend, mythology, and even religious texts and movies/TV shows we have devoured all our life. No one wants to read or…

Civics, Culture, Development, Education, Government, Media, Society

Nepal capital Kathmandu devastated by powerful earthquake

April 26, 2015 benign0 6 Comments

The Nepal earthquake was a magnitude 7.8 (Mw) earthquake that occurred at 11:56 NST (6:11:26 UTC) on Saturday 25 April 2015, with the epicentre approximately 34 km (21 mi) east-southeast of Lamjung, Nepal, and the hypocenter at a depth of approximately 15 km (9.3 mi). It is the most powerful earthquake to have hit Nepal…

Civics

The Philippines’ culture of impunity and mendicancy worsened under President Noynoy Aquino

April 25, 2015 Ilda 20 Comments

Philippine President Benigno Simeon (BS) Aquino’s speeches quite often make me laugh and cringe at the same time. Everything about his speeches is a joke – the way he delivers them and the way these are peppered with motherhood statements. I don’t think he even sees the way he frequently contradicts his own statements in…

Crime, Culture, Development, Education, Government, Society

On Bitterness: A Monologue

April 25, 2015 Grimwald 18 Comments

Okay I’m sure a lot of you have heard about the article that praises the Philippines with a lot of “I love the Philippines…” because of its allegedly “good” traits. This is going to be very similar to that. After reading some of the comments on my latest articles, I can’t help but notice the…

Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

Idolatry and Idiocy: The True Pinoy Legacy

April 24, 2015April 24, 2015 Grimwald 28 Comments

Okay, due to the recent reactions and comments of my previous article about Manny Pacquiao, I feel a need to elaborate further. While I laud those who took the time to read the whole article and analyzed it with both their hearts and minds (I don’t mind whether or not you agree with me as…

Culture, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society