Category: Culture

Filipinos need to learn how to think: Thinking 101 in three convenient lessons

August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 benign0 21 Comments

The last couple of weeks has seen circus following circus kicking off crescendous waves of crocodile emotions that swept many Filipinos off their feet. One good thing coming out of that is that it brought to fore some really key features of the dysfunction that underlies the Philippine National Thinking Process. Below, for the reading…

Civics, Culture, Education, Society

Is Death The Door To Other Side Or Merely A Billboard For Opportunists On This One?

August 23, 2012January 18, 2016 Gogs 1 Comment

“Every movie in every cinema is about Death, Death Sells!” Ian Faith, manager of the legendary band Spinal Tap. Michael Jackson was as hot as a musical artist can get in the mid 80s.Like anything else there will be a regression. When he died people in my life from maids to our H.R. were…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Government, Politics

It is too late to honour the late Jesse Robredo now – because he’s dead

August 22, 2012August 18, 2015 benign0 64 Comments

So now Secretary Jesse Robredo is dead. And lo, what do we see around us now but a multitude of armchair eulogies — many of them spread shallow across 140-character snippets of textual diarrhoea — waxing poetic on how good a man he was. That’s all good folks — if it weren’t for the fact…

Civics, Culture, Society

I Got Friends In Low Places

August 18, 2012 Gogs 26 Comments

I love you you love me we’re a happy family with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you wont you say you love me too! “The Barney Theme Song” I Gogs, of sound mind and body have to declare that today August 18 in the year of our Lord 2012…

Culture, Government, Media

Senator Tito Sotto’s act of plagiarism merely reflects the character of the people who voted for him

August 17, 2012August 17, 2012 benign0 50 Comments

So Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III allegedly committed plagiarism when he supposedly lifted some words from the work of several bloggers and used them in his anti-Reproductive Health (RH) Bill speech. Big deal. According to “investigative journalist” Raissa Robles, by doing so, Sotto had committed an affront to “intellectual honesty”. As we are to be…

Culture, Politics, Religion

Is Robert Carabuena worth the trouble to Philip Morris?

August 16, 2012 benign0 65 Comments

Quite unfortunate for Robert Blair Carabuena that he is employed by global tobacco giant Philip Morris International. It does not help the man whose reputation is currently being carpetbombed across social media that he is employed by what is also a much-demonised industry. Carabuena is currently under fire after he was caught on camera assaulting…

Crime, Culture, Money Talks

Robert Blair Carabuena self-destructs: are Filipinos angry for the right reasons?

August 15, 2012December 1, 2014 FallenAngel 190 Comments

Apparently in the last 24 hours or so one of the topics, and videos that went viral is this video of a certain Robert Blair Carabuena physically harassing a Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) official. According to the information that was obtained before he deleted his social network accounts, he is a graduate of Ateneo…

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Media

Robert Carabuena versus the MMDA: Who’s gonna win?

August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 Kate Natividad 87 Comments

What is it about guys and their cars? The moment guys get behind the wheel, they turn into Mr Hyde. What I thought were mild-mannered Clark Kent types suddenly start acting like they are flying down EDSA (whenever they could) wearing a blue suit, red boots, and a cape. What’s up with that? It’s not…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Education, Society