Category: Society

Part of Duterte-style national discipline involves clamping down on media freedom!

December 15, 2015 benign0 34 Comments

So Philippine politics has become more like a teleserye nowadays. The men of the hour are presidential candidates Rodrigo Duterte and Mar Roxas. The earlier is emerging as the top contender for the throne while the latter is struggling to rise from the bottom of the polls. Nonetheless each one has threatened to slap the…

Culture, Lifestyle, Politics, Society

A glimpse at our participation and the culture of online shaming

December 14, 2015 rsurtida 9 Comments

A few years ago an incident in an LRT station that involved a video recording of an irate girl berating a guard went viral and was immediately devoured by ‘netizens’ with sadistic glee. It showed a relatively young woman speaking to the guard in a voice a few octaves higher than the regular conversational tone…

Civics, Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society, Technology

3 Big Reasons Mar Roxas Should Just Disqualify Himself

December 14, 2015 Grimwald 14 Comments

After the hullabaloo that was Mar Roxas’ campaign video, it seems surprising that he still has the audacity to continue the campaigning. Oh well, he probably has reasons for doing so. It might have something to do with his wife wanting to become first lady, a way for the LP to stay in power or…

Development, Government, Media, Politics, Society

What a Duterte-led ‘people power’ rally might be like

December 14, 2015 benign0 13 Comments

Funny the way things turn out. Time was when supporters of politicians like current Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III and his ilk in what is now known as the “Yellow Mob” used to be quick to draw upon the notion that a “people power” show-of-force could pretty much over-rule any product of the…

Politics, Society, The South

Who is better, Rody Duterte or Mar Roxas?

December 14, 2015 Kate Natividad 28 Comments

When will we find out nga ba? All I see are the rabid supporters of one camp trolling the other. The only ammo I see flying are lame globs of mud being flung from one side of the fence to the other? Nakaka-bobo! But then, hey, this is the Philippine electorate we are talking about,…

Culture, Politics, Society

The 2016 Official Charles Englund Political Campaign Manual

December 13, 2015December 13, 2015 Charles Englund 8 Comments

Free political campaign advice from the Charles Englund Foundation (CEF): In the curious morass that is the Filipino collective psyche, a leader must never volunteer or present himself for political office, more so, not for the (cue trumpets) “highest office in the land” (or what people in other countries simply call, the presidency). To present…

Culture, Development, Government, Politics, Society

Euthanasia for the Sick Man of Asia

December 13, 2015 zaxx 44 Comments

It’s been a slow and agonizing wasting away with the current crop of incompetent and corrupt empathy-devoid bozos that fill the political arena here in the country widely known as the Sick Man of Asia. This decaying remittance-transfusion-sustained corpse of a society/economy, the semblance of life being just the wiggling movement of infesting maggots under…

Charter Change, Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Government, Politics, Society

How The Negative Reaction To “Fast Forward Sa Tuwid Na Daan” Gives Me Hope

December 12, 2015 Grimwald 10 Comments

Ladies and gentlemen, before I begin, I would first like to share with you something I’ve read from a book about the Nazi occupation of Denmark. I don’t remember the title nor the author of the book and I don’t exactly remember all the details of the scene I’m about to describe. However, I will…

Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

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