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FREE: the National Word of the Philippines

August 9, 2020 - by zaxx - 4 Comments.

How many words are there in existence?  Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (2005) contains more than 476,000 vocabulary entries. And each word opens an entirely new world in itself. Take …

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How Filipinos can fix their broken “democracy”

February 8, 2020 - by benign0 - 4 Comments.

Perhaps rightly so, Opposition partisans in the Philippines lament the way “democracy” is working for them nowadays. They lost an entire nation in the 2016 elections that catapulted former Davao …

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Government / Politics

SO WHAT if the Philippines is “less democratic” under Duterte?

December 3, 2019 - by benign0 - 9 Comments.

Leaders of today’s Philippine Opposition will have us believe that democracy is in crisis — even in decline (horrors!) — and, as such, heralding a coming era of doom and …

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Politics

Fear of missing out (FOMO) on a “better” president

September 16, 2019 - by benign0 - 3 Comments.

We’re all familiar with the experience of looking for parking in a packed parking lot. After spending the last hour circling and, in the case of malls, spiralling up and …

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Government / Lifestyle

China proves that might – and MONEY – makes it RIGHT

August 7, 2019 - by benign0 - 8 Comments.

Hong Kong’s quaint experiment with liberal Western democracy is coming to an end. That, of course, is not the Hollywood ending a generation of snowflakes raised on a diet of …

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You can’t legislate against “political dynasties” because the Philippines is a democracy

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 - by benign0 - 14 Comments.

The idea of legislating against “political dynasties” is ludicrous in a democracy such as the Philippines. For one thing (and, perhaps, the only thing), leaders and representatives in the Executive …

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Culture / Government / Society

Voting, Vaginas and Vehicles: How toning down people’s rights can bring order to the Philippines

August 4, 2018 - by zaxx - 69 Comments.

There has been much to discuss recently on the topic of “right to life” – whether having a beating heart is a basic right or a privilege. Now let’s dive …

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Charter Change / Culture / Development

Under federalism, EVERY Filipino tribe will find out what they are REALLY made of

July 13, 2018July 14, 2018 - by benign0 - 25 Comments.

At the moment, every boy and his dog is writing one or another bit of “analysis” on the matter of the Philippines’ transformation into a federal republic. Under a federal …

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