Category: Culture

Should Congress Give in to Duterte’s Demand to Reinstate the Death Penalty?

May 20, 2016 zaxx 34 Comments

The Philippines is the Menudo melting pot where religion and politics mix together to come up with a colorful and interestingly flavored concoction unique to this mixed-breed people that conspicuously keep appearing in headlines with all the noise they generate from their small corner of the globe. Again we are talk of the town all…

Culture, Government, Politics, Religion, Society

International media should move on from Duterte’s rape joke and focus on the hard tasks ahead

May 19, 2016May 19, 2016 Ilda 28 Comments

Australian morning show Sunrise featured a segment on presumptive Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to discuss his win in the recent presidential elections. The show had an Australian political analyst named Dr Keith Suter as guest who speculated on what a Duterte President would be like. Even before he was introduced, the two hosts of the…

Culture, Media, Politics

True Happiness Begins With Honesty With Oneself

May 17, 2016 Grimwald 32 Comments

“Happiness”: A simple word and a word that we hear all too often in many of our TV shows and films. It’s not uncommon for people to say that one should find one’s own happiness in the world. In many of our programs, happiness is said to be found when one finally discovers his or her…

Culture, Lifestyle, Religion, Society

The Top 5 Achievements Of President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino

May 16, 2016 Grimwald 19 Comments

Well, here we go again with President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino trumpeting his alleged achievements in the last six years. He even goes as far as to claim that “no one can top his achievements” and both he and his followers continue to believe that he was the “best president the Philippines has ever had”….

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Government

Cheating The System In The Philippines

May 11, 2016 Grimwald 46 Comments

It’s pretty simple actually. You just open a menu or dialogue box and type in a set of words or a code like “power overwhelming”, “born to run”, “there is no spoon” or “set stage vampire 69” and voila, the game physics will change to suit your needs whether it’s making your army outright invincible,…

Culture, Politics, Society

Leni Robredo is the final bastion of Filipinos’ now-obsolete Martial Law Crybaby Syndrome

May 11, 2016May 11, 2016 benign0 105 Comments

If I were in the shoes of all those cheering on Leni Robredo’s epic battle against Bongbong Marcos for the vice presidency of the Philippines, I’d be a bit more circumspect. Propelling Leni Robredo’s run is the awesome machinery of the Liberal Party which, if one might need remind all, remains in power and enjoys…

Culture, Society

Filipinos should stop believing in Magic

May 10, 2016 ChinoF 12 Comments

What a word: magic. In Grimwald’s article about the subject of positive thinking, esteemed commenter Sea Bee dropped this little gem of a thought: …despite 500 years of colonization, Filipinos still believe in the aboriginal concept of magic. There is widespread belief in fairies and encantos. Telenovelas who subject is the fairy world are wildly…

Culture

The Disgusting Business Of Philippine Politics And How The Dumb Masses Allow For It

May 10, 2016May 10, 2016 Grimwald 15 Comments

People keep asking me why I seem to have chosen to keep quiet about politics save for the occasional spoof article and instead focus on smaller issues in our country. Well, the thing is, as I’ve come to discover, politics isn’t really what’s wrong with the Philippines. No, the real problem in the Philippines isn’t…

Culture, Media, Politics, Society