We beg to differ.
So, it has come to this. Sadly, while I am pleased to know that more and more people are waking up intellectually because of the Aquino administration’s repetitive mishaps, a lot more remain delusional regarding the true state of the country. To this day, I still meet a lot of people who are in vehement…
Some time ago I watched a local documentary that dramatized Ferdinand Magellan’s visit to Mactan Island in 1521. Most Filipinos are aware of the events here: Mactan’s chieftain Lapu-Lapu kills Magellan, and the rest of the natives drive the rest of the Spanish back to their boats. What irked me however was what the actor…
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This is more or less a response to Kate Natividad’s articles about breeding out idiots and why I think that, despite Ms. Natividad’s good intentions, it will be of little help in this country. This is also related to ChinoF’s article about “bakya” society and why this is one of the major problems we need…
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I heard the news! The Ateneo high school is going coed! Well, actually it’s now effective only for what they call “senior high school” or Grades 11 and 12 (what used to be 3rd and 4th Year high school in the old days). That’s gonna be quite a treat for a bunch of oversexed students…
WTF? Make her brother “happy”?? According to an ABS-CBN News report this was Kris Aquino’s request to current Miss Universe Philippines title holder Pia Wurtzbach after rumours spread that she and Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino were an item. Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach also known as Pia Romero (born September 24, 1989) is a Filipino-German…
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” ~Edmund Burke The above quote implies that evil prevails when good people fail to take action. In all my years, I have noticed that many Filipinos don’t only condition themselves to not act against evil but to also not care about it when…
I remember reading a story when I was younger. At the time of course, I didn’t understand it completely but it was only until later did I really understand the theme of the story. I don’t remember the title or the author of the story but it was about lions. No, it’s not The Lion King,…
See, this is why politics in this country bores me… News goes around that King Benigno S. Aquino III’s ratings plunges even further down and people are contributing their two cents as they share the links on their Facebook walls, perhaps only vaguely aware that these ratings only matter in a small and not even practical…