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Filipinos need to learn how to think: Thinking 101 in three convenient lessons

August 24, 2012August 24, 2012 benign0 21 Comments

The last couple of weeks has seen circus following circus kicking off crescendous waves of crocodile emotions that swept many Filipinos off their feet. One good thing coming out of that is that it brought to fore some really key features of the dysfunction that underlies the Philippine National Thinking Process. Below, for the reading…

Civics, Culture, Education, Society

Told ya so: Ateneo de Manila President Fr Ramon Villarin sides with CBCP heresy charge vs faculty

August 23, 2012August 23, 2012 benign0 12 Comments

Sometimes being right all the time gets boring. What can be so complicated or even “mind boggling” about how Fr Ramon Villarin, President of the Ateneo de Manila University, sides with the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Phiippines’s (CBCP) censure of faculty members found to be teaching “inappropriate” matters on reproductive health? The Ateneo, after…

Education, Religion, Uncategorized

Is Death The Door To Other Side Or Merely A Billboard For Opportunists On This One?

August 23, 2012January 18, 2016 Gogs 1 Comment

“Every movie in every cinema is about Death, Death Sells!” Ian Faith, manager of the legendary band Spinal Tap. Michael Jackson was as hot as a musical artist can get in the mid 80s.Like anything else there will be a regression. When he died people in my life from maids to our H.R. were…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Government, Politics

It is too late to honour the late Jesse Robredo now – because he’s dead

August 22, 2012August 18, 2015 benign0 64 Comments

So now Secretary Jesse Robredo is dead. And lo, what do we see around us now but a multitude of armchair eulogies — many of them spread shallow across 140-character snippets of textual diarrhoea — waxing poetic on how good a man he was. That’s all good folks — if it weren’t for the fact…

Civics, Culture, Society

Questionable circumstances of DILG Secretary Jesse Robredo’s death: Could it have been prevented?

August 21, 2012August 18, 2015 benign0 120 Comments

Even as the country mourns the death of Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jess Robredo in a plane crash this week, some questions are starting to emerge. An observation made by a certain Adolfo Mortera re-posted by Showbiz Government covers most of these questions in summary… [Philippine President Benigno Simeon] Aquino has…

Government, Politics, Society

Should Ateneo de Manila faculty members who choose to continue to teach ‘reproductive health’ be fired?

August 21, 2012August 21, 2012 benign0 41 Comments

Seeing all the rah-rahs — even (horrors!) mudslinging — being thrown by one camp of the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill “debate” at the other, I just have to take my hat off to the anti-RH Bill advocates who are employing Roman Catholic dogma as the underlying framework of their position. Their argument is pretty well-grounded….

Lifestyle, Politics, Religion, Society

Judicial reform? What exactly is it?

August 20, 2012 a 22 Comments

While the search for missing Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse Robredo continues, the esteemed President Noynoy Aquino seems to have another dilemma to ponder on; having to choose the next Chief Justice from the Judicial and Bar Councilâ€™s shortlist after his most trusted sidekick, Justice Secretary Leila de Lima, got booted…

Government, Politics

Search for Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo after plane crash continues

August 19, 2012 benign0 46 Comments

As of this writing the search continues for Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo who remains missing along with two pilots after the Piper Seneca plane they were on crashed somewhere in Masbate Bay on Saturday, the 18th of August. A large search and rescue effort is currently underway involving the Philippine Air Force, Navy, Coast…

Government, Society

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