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WARNING: Mature readers only. This is NOT a joke. This issue continues to affect me on a very deep level. So there it is, it seems that the presidential debate is over (as covered here by Charles Englund) and people are now gearing up to celebrate the anniversary of the EDSA Revolution, the so-called bloodless revolution that…
The country celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the 1986 EDSA “Revolution” under the deception that things have become better ever since the overthrow of the Marcos dictatorship. The celebrations have become so regular, so systematic, and so ingrained that the “EDSA Spirit” has become rather dogmatic. Leading the celebrations, as expected, is President BS Aquino…
Only recently I read up on the details of Gamergate, an incident where a spat between two ex-lovers in the gaming industry became a full-blown harassment campaign on the Internet. I will let other sites like Rationalwiki give the details about the incident. It came to my attention since a recent news report said that…
Hot diggity! Yeah just gotta love the Mar Roxas’ and Noynoy Aquino’s part of the Liberal Party, they’re a ton of laughs and they’re getting funnier every day. If I am not mistaken, it was only the other day when, in an attempt to prove that his rival Jejomar Binay had failed to curb the…
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Thirty years after Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. was ousted from his seat of power, the miasma of anxiety has grown thick over the possibility of his JUNIOR occupying the second highest post in the Executive branch of government. For the past two years, the #NeverAgain hashtag appears in social and mainstream media, grabbing at each opportunity…
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I think per square foot, the Philippines may very well have more tools than Ace Hardware. How else can you explain why so many people seem to have been so impressed with presidential aspirant, Sen. Grace Poe-Llamanzares’s (GPL) performance on that very non-substantive presidential debate a few days ago? Sure, she probably was the candidate…
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There were many flaws in the First Philippine Presidential debate 2016. Most everyone complained that there were too many commercials and the candidates were not given enough time to answer in depth. In fact, the flaws of the debate mirrored the same flaws in the Philippine political system. Beholden to commercial interests, not enough substance,…
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Any discission on the future of the “gay rights” movement in the Philippines has to start with the teachings of Filipinos’ Christian faith — because, at the moment, religion is stubbornly baked into Filipinos’ sense of identity. But, Christian teaching in general — and Catholic dogma specifically — categorically lists homosexuality and its derivative lifestyles…
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