We beg to differ.
Alas Kwatro y Medya Hindi ko marinig ang kantang tumutugtog sa munti kong radyo dahil sa sobrang lakas ng ulan. Kanina pa akong nakahiga sa marupok kong papag at nakatulala, nakatitig sa butiki sa bubong. Pakiramdam ko ay mas mainam pang naging butiki na lang ako. Napakaraming lamok at insekto sa paligid ang maaari nyang…
It’s been more than half a decade now since social media first started emerging as (supposedly) a potent platform for political “debate”. And before that era there already was a thriving Philippine blogosphere of the late 1990s and early 2000’s, when notable opinion-shapers like Manuel L Quezon III, the writers of the Philippine Center for…
The following is a copy of the Foreword I wrote for my friend Ben Kritz’s new book Same Planet, Different World: An Outsider’s Inside View of the Philippines. You can download the book from Amazon here onto Kindle or any of a variety of apps also supported by Amazon. We in our clique of the…
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It has been quite some time now that the prevailing issues, hot topics and shocking headlines of our newspapers and the dominant talk of the town is the apparent and seeming rise of criminal statistics and the rampant commission of various crimes, specifically those of economic in nature and background. The root causes of crime…