Category: Society

Team PNoy campaign and poll statistical extravaganza splashed all over Yellow media!

February 27, 2013 benign0 28 Comments

Thanks to the heightened intensity with which “social news network” Rappler is covering the ‘Team PNoy’ campaign in the Philippine hinterlands, we are getting a fair idea of how far the quality of Da Pinoy Vote has progressed in the last 27 years. Aside from joining the administration ticket on their campaign trail in northern…

Civics, Media, Politics, Society

Everything I need to know about improving the outcome of Philippine elections I learned in kindergarten

February 25, 2013February 25, 2013 benign0 11 Comments

Election buzz and ‘solutions’ around how to make the Vote work better for the country now dominates the national chatter so I thought I’d come out and lend a bit of clarity to the following activist buzzwords as only a writer of Get Real Post could. * * * Campaign platforms You’d think that the…

Education, Politics, Society

On Edsa People Power and the legacy of the Jabidah massacre

February 25, 2013February 25, 2013 Ms. Mike Portes 9 Comments

It’s been 27 years since the Edsa People Power, a time when we all hoped for the best.Â Where has that spirit gone? Has that “Proud to be a Filipino” tagline, gone beyond lip service? Has that popular mantra translated to a country where the rights of its citizens is upheld and its citizens know the…

Politics, Society, The South

Assault on free speech: Iceland mulling ban on internet pornography

February 18, 2013 benign0 15 Comments

Iceland may become the first Western democracy to ban internet pornography. CNN.com reports a “strong consensus” building in the Scandinavian island nation noting mounting convincing arguments from many experts on the matter. “At the moment, we are looking at the best technical ways to achieve this. But surely if we can send a man to…

Media, Society, Tech Talk

Life, It’s More Cheap In The Philippines. Who Cares? We Have Jessica Sanchez!

February 17, 2013June 20, 2014 Gogs 27 Comments

“Even regular soldiers and police are often recruited into private armies through money or political favours. They are paid as little as US$ 58 a month to become enforcers in executions, abductions and drug-related crimes.” Asianews This piece started off in the remnants of my brain around late December. It was going to…

Crime, Government, Media, Politics, Society, Technology

How the Miriam Santiago vs Ping Lacson circus mirrors the Philippines’ bakla culture

February 14, 2013 benign0 51 Comments

Funny that just as soon as Senator Miriam Santiago threatened to reveal the “truth” about Senator Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson’s sexual orientation, the latter senator in a way kind of validated what many people have been speculating by going on a rampaging counter-attack himself. For one thing, this all supposedly started after Lacson was accused by…

Civics, Culture, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Are the noisiest advocates of social ‘change’ doing more harm than good?

February 12, 2013 benign0 13 Comments

There is an adage modern doctors live by that encapsulates what their real role is in the holistic process of healing — Do no harm first. The human body is a wondrous but complex system. We never quite known what is going on in the way its billions of component parts interact. Yet many modern…

Civics, Development, Society

Gloria Arroyo inadvertently exposes Noynoy Aquino’s true character

February 9, 2013May 29, 2016 Ilda 159 Comments

In dealing with your enemy, the best weapon is patience. Vindication could take a while but time will eventually reveal the true nature of your opponent. When you feel that your enemy is unfairly prosecuting you, do not worry. You won’t even have to say much because insecure people in general have this tendency to…

Crime, Featured, Government, Society