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Wacky Church-Supported Doctor Plays the Antivax Card and Says Condoms Give You HIV

April 26, 2014April 26, 2014 BenK 39 Comments

Leave it to the Philippines, a country where one of the largest daily newspapers keeps a medium on the payroll, where psychic surgery is still a thing, and where, for a disturbingly large part of the population, dripping candle wax into a bowl of water is considered a legitimate diagnosis technique, to issue a license…

Education, Religion, Science

Are Filipino Celebrations in Singapore going too far?

April 25, 2014April 27, 2014 ChinoF 133 Comments

It’s no wonder Filipinos were again the subject of controversy in Singapore. There was some recent furor on Filipino celebrations of independence in the country. A group of Filipinos ran an ad where they announced a celebration of the June 12 Philippine Independence day happening on Orchard Road. This angered many Singaporeans, who expressed their…

Culture

Mar Roxas’s Wack Wack suspension: another giant leap to a modern Philippines!

April 24, 2014 benign0 72 Comments

Another giant leap for the lot of ordinary Filipinos who have long suffered under the culture of impunity perpetrated by their elected “leaders”! In a resolution issued by the Board of Wack Wack Golf and Country Club, the Philippines’ Secretary of Interior and Local Government Mar Roxas was reportedly suspended as member of the swanky…

Culture, Lifestyle, Society

Why Colonial Mentality is a Bogeyman

April 24, 2014September 20, 2015 ChinoF 29 Comments

I once blogged about colonial mentality, stating that seeing it as a problem is a myth. After more thought and encountering further opinions on the subject, I still think it is a myth – a dangerous one. A bogeyman, an imaginary monster in the closet. I’ve seen so many discussions where others fiercely blame it…

Civics, Culture, Development, Education, Media, Society

Constitutional Reform: What it Looks Like from the Outside

April 24, 2014 BenK 15 Comments

The idea of ‘charter change’ is nothing new to outsiders, but being able to observe and discuss the movement as a serious idea rather than cynically dismissing it as the same old limited-focus canard that gets floated every year is a refreshing change of pace. So what’s different about ‘charter change’ now, as opposed to…

Charter Change, Development, Politics

What Makes Filipinos the Perfect Slaves?

April 21, 2014April 21, 2014 ChinoF 27 Comments

Most of us regular bloggers here attribute the problems of the Philippines to the country’s culture. For us, it’s too obvious. Our culture has customs and practices that make us do things that we better not do. Spend beyond our means, generate huge numbers of children, vote for who is popular despite their being poorly…

Crime, Culture

Abortion is really a simple issue if you take the ‘soul’ out of the debate

April 20, 2014February 3, 2022 benign0 71 Comments

Nobody who rests comfily within the bed of Establishment thinking seems to want to take a position on the debate around abortion. The highest profile players in this arena include New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights playing forward striker for the Forces of Ethical Thinking and on the other side is the 2,000-year-old bedrock of,…

Civics, Lifestyle, Religion, Science

Television can save the Philippines

April 20, 2014April 20, 2014 Ilda 31 Comments

The word escapism, as defined on the Net, refers to a mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation, as an “escape” from the perceived unpleasant or banal aspects of daily life. It can also be used as a term to define the actions people take to help relieve persisting feelings of depression or general…

Education, Media

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Fernando
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on To the woke mind, the “oppressed” are NEVER guilty of rape and murder
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Gabsboy
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
"Tingala sa langit" "Tingala sa gobyerno" "Tingala sa Amerika" Learned
zzz
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
It's funny how those without contribution run their mouths, seek
benign0
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
Filipinos' tingala mentality. It is WORLD renowned.
Slaves
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
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Gabsboy
on EDSA 40 years after: Overthrow and “Leftist” Ideals Don’t Work
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