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Tall police officers matter in a nation of people short in substance

April 2, 2013April 2, 2013 benign0 28 Comments

Short cops policing a short people, corrupt politicians governing a corrupt people. Like Coffeemate in coffee, it all makes sense to me. So then what’s the big deal about Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III’s “veto” of a bill proposing a removal of minimum height requirements for Filipino police personnel? Funny thing, the way…

Government, Lifestyle, Society

A Time to Laugh at Death

April 2, 2013April 2, 2013 Jose Mario de Vega 4 Comments

Today, with the indulgence of the reader, I would like to write and talk about death. Yes, death. As the Greek philosopher Epicurus famously stated: Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not. The proponent of the philosophical school of Stoicism has…

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Religion

Democracy in the Philippines and the victorious return of Joseph Ejercito ‘Erap’ Estrada!

April 1, 2013April 1, 2013 benign0 8 Comments

Funny when we recall how back in April 2001, Howie Severino wrote how just “months later” in the aftermath of a second Edsa ‘revolution’, deposed President Joseph Ejercito Estrada “was grimly posing for a mug shot in Camp Crame.” Then he was shown lying on a cot inside a cell with wire mesh windows. The…

Politics, Society

Hallelujah I Have Seen The Light!

April 1, 2013October 31, 2016 Gogs 27 Comments

Your perceptions will not change reality, but simply color it. Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem (2002) I just had what alcoholics call a moment of clarity. To think that once I could not see beyond the veil of our reality… to see those who dwell behind. I was once a…

Culture, Government, Media, Politics

It’s More Troll in the Philippines!: PH Online Computer Gaming

March 29, 2013 Despair 42 Comments

Reminder: I decide not to censor some foul words that you will be encountering. I hate filtering words that doesn’t fit the side of my argument. Please read with caution, especially you KIDS. I’m beginning to rage harder now. I just played my fourth match in my game and still lose the game. All of…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Fitch Ratings upgrade: Will the Philippines’ new ‘investment grade’ status spell good times ahead?

March 28, 2013October 10, 2013 benign0 40 Comments

In John Landis’s 1983 hit movie Trading Places, Billy Ray Valentine, a bum and hustler played by Eddie Murphy is picked up from the streets, cleaned up and dressed in an expensive business suit as part of an experiment instigated by wealthy brothers Randolph Duke and Mortimer Duke. The made-over Valentine is then set up…

Development, Economy

No Ability = Winnability

March 28, 2013March 18, 2019 Gogs 37 Comments

Einstein is often credited with the saying Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Einstein also said we can not solve our problems with the same thinking that created them. Both quotes play in nicely to my topic today boys and girls. Ever notice every single…

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Culture, Government

Social media circus acts: Filipino ‘New Media’ gone traditional

March 27, 2013March 27, 2013 benign0 11 Comments

Just when we think “civil society” has gotten up to speed with regard to the concept of regarding politics and our politicians with a critical mind, we are still arrested by the familiar sight of the lemming-like behaviour of people who merely follow self-described “heroes” and dance to the tune of those who beat the…

Politics, Society, Tech Talk