Category: Society

Nelson Mandela cannot be compared to Filipino ‘hero’ Benigno ‘Ninoy’ Aquino Jr

December 6, 2013December 6, 2013 benign0 100 Comments

I think the relevant thing of note to Filipinos on this day of the death of revered champion of human rights Nelson Mandela is that he cannot be compared to “national hero” Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. While Nelson Mandela, like Ninoy Aquino, endured imprisonment (though Mandela’s 27-year term dwarfs the latter’s), Mandela unlike Ninoy went…

Civics, Society

Anne Curtis’s business sense: ‘I can buy your friends, and this club!’

December 3, 2013 Kate Natividad 33 Comments

Poor little rich starlet Anne Curtis, caught behaving badly in no less than the Privé Luxury Club. Tsk tsk. Turns out these artistas aren’t too far off from the characters they portray in Pinoy movies. Sampal sampal pag may time. Lol! Thing is, she had to make sampal sampal no less than John Lloyd Cruz…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle should just shut up about the Yolanda victims

December 2, 2013 benign0 87 Comments

Recall the monstrous earthquake and resulting tsunami that struck Japan back in 2011 causing untold death and suffering there. The stoicism and quiet grace with which the Japanese greeted the unimaginable destruction and loss of life, mobilised its forces to assess and respond, and reached out to the global community to receive assistance speaks volumes…

Civics, Religion, Society

The Noy who cried wolf

November 27, 2013 FallenAngel 37 Comments

No doubt that many of you have heard of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf”, one of Aesop’s fables. A shepherd boy repeatedly tricks villagers nearby into thinking that wolves are attacking his flock. When the wolves do come along, he cries for help once again, but the villagers do not believe him anymore. Thus, the…

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Environment, Government, Politics, Society

Is Noynoy Driven Forever To Fill A False Image?

November 23, 2013November 23, 2013 Gogs 21 Comments

President Coolidge came down in a railroad train With a little fat man with a note-pad in his hand The President say, “Little fat man isn’t it a shame what the river has done To this poor crackers land.” Randy Newman “Louisiana 1927” The song is based on actual events that occurred…

Government, Politics, Society

Filipinos who say ‘stop criticizing the government’ are not helping the country progress

November 23, 2013November 23, 2013 Ilda 115 Comments

One of the stupidest things some Filipinos kept suggesting during the height of the disaster in Central Philippines brought about by super typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) is for people to stop criticizing the Philippine government. For some bizarre reason, some equate the criticism coming from those who were concerned for the welfare of the victims as…

Civics, Government, Media, Society

McHeroes: Filipinos need to cure their addiction to disaster heroism

November 22, 2013 benign0 24 Comments

As what usually happens following another disaster, another tragedy, another “accident”, or another crisis, “heroism” is, yet again, the word of the month. Heroes are currently at work delivering relief, comforting the victims, counseling the hapless, and inspiring the desperate. We are told these “heroes” are also facing the “great battles ahead”. Presumably those “battles”…

Civics, Culture, Government, Religion, Society

Positivity in times of disaster is overrated

November 21, 2013November 21, 2013 Kate Natividad 24 Comments

But of course it comes across as being “negative” when we talk about just how horrific a disaster Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) brought upon the Philippines. It is being “negative” when one points out how decades of neglect, corruption, and idiocy had laid layers and layers of the groundwork that turned much of the Philippine archipelago…

Civics, Culture, Education, Society