We beg to differ.
This may sound like a silly question considering that the majority of Filipinos still troop to Sunday masses and fete priests like celebrities at social gatherings. They come to them for advise, delegate to them their children’s education, hold on to every word they utter during their homilies, and whisper their darkest thoughts and most…
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Pork Barrel, the primary feature and, to many Filipino politicians, the whole point of Philippine politics is not dead yet. It remains alive, despite the crushing of its two biggest motherlodes, the so-called Prioritiy Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) and the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). The embryo for the new pork is already baked into the…
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You might encounter the term Pilosopo Tasyo (Philosopher Tasyo) or simply pilosopo in a couple of typical Filipino conversations, and is generally taken to mean “someone who takes things literally in a sarcastic way,” usually thrown at people who can’t help but nitpick on people’s faulty sentence construction for fun. While the word has donned…
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