We beg to differ.
It’s been more than half a decade now since social media first started emerging as (supposedly) a potent platform for political “debate”. And before that era there already was a thriving Philippine blogosphere of the late 1990s and early 2000’s, when notable opinion-shapers like Manuel L Quezon III, the writers of the Philippine Center for…
Sorry for not having posted anything in a while guys, I had to take a short break from it all and spend a short vacation away from both my identities. However, your favorite Fallen Crusader has returned from his recent sojourn to once again ruin the day of many a delusional Filipino. Apparently, not even…
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The Mahatma Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins, sometimes called the Seven Blunders of the World, is a list that he published in his weekly newspaper Young India on October 22, 1925. Later he gave this same list to his grandson, Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper on their final day together shortly before his…
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From Day One: The only thing getting in the way of President BS Aquino’s personal agenda is the Philippine Constitution. The flawed-by-design Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) fiasco is but the most recent example. Negotiating with terrorists is one thing, allowing a top representative — the Man Formerly Known as Mohagher Iqbal — to sign legal…
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I am a big fan of RPG games, you know, the ones wherein you play the role of a certain character and you progress through the game in an adventurous manner. It’s like reading a good adventure book wherein you yourself are the hero and how you save the princess/prince/kingdom/world/universe is entirely up to you….
President BS Aquino III has always repeated his parents’ “glory” and their “sacrifices for the country” ad nauseam in his speeches. This has become a routine for him whenever he would speak in public events, and even in wakes. Such a routine has become very annoying that I would just flip the channel to watch…
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Aquino, Marcos. These are the two surnames in which Philippine politics is (perhaps blindly) divided into. A failure of the Marcos family puts the Aquino supporters on a feast, and vice versa. With the presidential election looming, the term of President BS Aquino III is drawing to a close. His endorsement power was affected by…
In 2009, I was pretty sure that if anyone should win in the 2010 national elections, it should be (then) Senator Dick Gordon and being in the middle of so many activities aimed at securing his victory, I couldn’t help but buy into the campaign propaganda we had crafted during those many long nights at…
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