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SEA Games Fails, Time To Rise Above Fantardism

November 26, 2019November 26, 2019 P. Farol 3 Comments

The rash of SEA Games fails could have been addressed better. Thing is, I thought the cauldron was the last issue against the SEA Games but I was surprised that more came to light and still more will come. For some reason, I keep hearing Vice Ganda’s voice whenever I re-read Phisgoc chair and House…

Government, Politics

Firing of Leni Robredo as “Drug Czar” is the final nail in the Liberal Party coffin

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 Ilda 16 Comments

Things have been moving too fast in Philippine politics lately that it’s hard to keep up. I have been promising myself I would write about current Vice President Leonor “Leni” Robredo’s relentless attacks on the government – a government she is a part of, but before I had a chance to do it, President Rodrigo…

Crime, Government, Politics

SEA Games problems prove Filipinos still need a lot of work building an ethic of excellence

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 benign0 12 Comments

Did we really expect a seamless, swimmingly-hosted Southeast Asian Games (SEAG)? This is, after all, the Philippines where nothing works. Filipinos cannot organise their way out of a paper bag and this is reflected in just about every failed system and ways of working borrowed from former colonial masters and sloppily-applied to their setting. It…

Government, Society

Real Ateneans don’t wear blue

November 23, 2019November 23, 2019 benign0 4 Comments

As an alumnus of the Ateneo, I can’t help but wonder about what’s really going on in the heads of the members of what is arguably the most elite academic community in the Philippines. Indeed, the Ateneo is so elite that even Ateneans aspire to de-elitisize themselves as soon as they step out of its…

Education, Society

Are 30th SEA Games Preparations Over Priced?

November 18, 2019 P. Farol 8 Comments

My sports geek friends are eagerly awaiting the 30th Sea Games and they are paying no mind at all to the horrendous traffic it’ll create all over Metro Manila as well as in the various venues outside of NCR. Right in the middle of recalling various sports statistics and some esoteric bits of sports lore,…

Government, Politics

Leni Robredo should set the record straight on the Philippines’ “War on Drugs” death toll

November 16, 2019 benign0 3 Comments

Having taken the job of co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), “vice president” Leni Robredo has vowed to “get the facts straight” on the actual situation of the Philippine Government’s on-going “War on Drugs”. Considering that this initiative is being criticised for what many describe as its unnecessarily “bloody” nature, part of…

Crime

Robredo should set “human rights” guy Phelim Kine straight re his “recommendation” to ARREST Duterte

November 11, 2019 benign0 6 Comments

Following news that Philippine “vice president” Leni Robredo had been appointed to lead the government’s War on Drugs, a certain Phelim Kine, who, according to his Twitter bio, is “Director of Research and Investigation at Physicians for Human Rights” is calling for the “arrest” of President Rodrigo Duterte. Dear VP @lenirobredo – my bags are…

Crime