Tag: ateneo

Why the CBCP is not a credible judge of who or what is “fake” or authentic

June 27, 2017October 30, 2021 benign0 13 Comments

It is quite rich that the venerable Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) would so pompously issue a list of Websites Carrying False or Unverified Contents [sic]. This is coming from a clique of renowned Filipino “thought leaders” who endorse medieval ideas like creationism and, as a matter of policy, apply only circular logic…

Media, Religion, Science

Marawi is the Philippines’ Vietnam War: Filipinos are apathetic to their soldiers’ sacrifices

June 11, 2017June 11, 2017 benign0 19 Comments

That date Filipinos mistakenly regard as “Independence Day” is approaching. Mistaken, because it is a reality from Filipinos’ perspectives but not everyone else’s. The Philippines’ real independence day was, of course, on the 4th of July 1946, when it was granted by the United States. The Philippines ceased being a colony of the United States…

Civics, Culture, Society, The South

How one becomes a Yellowtard

May 16, 2017 benign0 23 Comments

A person becomes a Yellowtard not because he is better or smarter than all the rest but because he prefers to allow popular but obsolete clique sentiment to hijack his better thinking faculties. Indeed, it seems too much of the “right” kind of education could be the culprit behind the scourge of Yellowtard disease. What…

Culture, Politics, Society

Iza Calzado laments how Anti-Marcos fundamentalists divide the nation

January 22, 2017 benign0 16 Comments

Actress Izadora Calzado is under fire from the usual social media suspects following her flattering impersonation of former First Lady Imelda Marcos at a party. GMA News Online reports Calzado’s explanation of her interesting choice of costume she wore to Tim Yap’s birthday celebration to impersonate Mrs. Marcos… “Decided to channel my inner Imelda Marcos…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour

Is Taglish the only language Leni Robredo can speak?

December 6, 2016 benign0 35 Comments

Can anyone actually imagine “vice president” Leni Robredo sitting in front of another head of state discussing serious matters of global consequence? It becomes even harder to imagine after watching her speak in yet another one of her pabebe tirades before her adoring minions in the media. Check out this video of her carrying on…

Development, Education, Lifestyle, Media

At the People Power Monument: Anti-Marcos protesters have become a laughingstock

December 1, 2016December 1, 2016 benign0 56 Comments

You gotta give credit to the anti-Marcos mob. They came back in their thousand-odd force, this time at the “People Power Monument” on EDSA at its intersection with Temple Drive outside Camp Aguinaldo today. Amongst those leading the charge (so they claim) are representatives of the “Big Three” elite Philippine schools, the University of the…

Politics, Society

The Ateneo and La Salle administrations’ failure to protest human rights violations

October 4, 2016October 4, 2016 Ilda 28 Comments

Administrators of two elite Philippine schools seem to prove what some have been suspecting all along – that the teachers in the country are teaching students what to think instead of how to think. Before the first encounter between the Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) and De La Salle University (DLSU) in this year’s UAAP…

Education, Politics

Marcos’s burial at the LNMB proves a point: His ouster in 1986 was against the law

August 17, 2016February 9, 2022 benign0 48 Comments

There are people wondering why there is such a strong push to have the remains of former President Ferdinand Marcos interred at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB). Perhaps these people need to approach that question from the perspective of the “other side”. If you were one of the Marcoses, wouldn’t you want former President…

Education, Politics