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And the massive national quibble over the content of the Napoles Lists is on!

May 13, 2014 benign0 10 Comments

As expected, the usual suspects are taking the top-management cue and mounting a massive online quibble over the contents of a bunch of name-and-shame lists, purportedly of members of Congress who’ve had “dealings” with alleged pork barrel scam ringleader Janet Lim Napoles, floating around. What exactly will these lists prove? Nothing really. What is at…

Crime, Government, Media, 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

Zen and the Art of Noytard Maintenance.

September 13, 2013 Gogs 41 Comments

His lack of faith in reason was why he was so fanatically dedicated to it. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig The book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig was probably mandatory hippie reading when it first came out in 1974. I first read it…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

With The Pork Barrel Scandal Comes Opportunity

September 2, 2013 Gogs 15 Comments

I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay. Jason Collins current NBA free agent Ilda told me last week (via FB ) that I should bend while the metal is hot. The challenge of course knowing if your “metal” is hot or what hot really is or what your metal is…

Culture, Government, Politics

Everywhere There’s Lots Of Piggies Living Piggy Lives

August 29, 2013 Gogs 69 Comments

Everywhere there’s lots of piggies living piggie lives, You can see them out for dinner with their piggie wives, Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon. The Beatles For me it always begins and ends with “kung walang corrupt walang mahirap”. In one sentence this election slogan promised an end to…

Civics, Culture, Government, Society