We beg to differ.
Did we really expect a seamless, swimmingly-hosted Southeast Asian Games (SEAG)? This is, after all, the Philippines where nothing works. Filipinos cannot organise their way out of a paper bag and this is reflected in just about every failed system and ways of working borrowed from former colonial masters and sloppily-applied to their setting. It…
As an alumnus of the Ateneo, I can’t help but wonder about what’s really going on in the heads of the members of what is arguably the most elite academic community in the Philippines. Indeed, the Ateneo is so elite that even Ateneans aspire to de-elitisize themselves as soon as they step out of its…
Anybody who’s been on Twitter a lot over the last several days will now have seen the latest fashionable catchphrase “Ok boomer” really taking off. The term “boomer” is short for “Baby Boomer”, a term used to refer to the generation of Americans born within the decade right after World War II ended. It has…
When subjected to extreme situations where it means either life or death, the primal response of the human brain brought about by thousand years of evolution is either a fight or flight response. It is where things are reduced to essentials and the superficial and the miscellaneous take a backseat. To come out alive of…
The saga of the Barretto sisters had gripped the minds of Filipinos for weeks now. In a society obsessed more with people and less with ideas, this recent circus is a bonanza for eyeball-starved mainstream media. Stepping back from the noise and the brain-dead detail of this showbiz fracas it is easy to sse the…
Nobody owes Carlos Celdran anything. He made a name for himself going up against the mighty Roman Catholic Church. But this is something many Filipinos have already been doing in manners that do not get them in trouble with the law. In this context one’s gotta take with a bit of bemusement what “thought leader”…
The conversation surrounding the opening up of private subdivision roads to the public has been fired up again thanks to Manila’s increasingly desperate traffic situation. Indeed, it is one of those obvious solutions begging to be addressed. Big chi chi subdivisions create choke points at key entry point and junctions into and at Metro Manila’s…
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Perhaps I’m weird, but I never got the logic of how pride marches lead to respect. To me, such marches are like being a siga (macho bully) in town, going around and demanding respect from others, and when someone does not give that respect, he beats them up. LGBTs don’t usually beat people up, the…
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