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JoeAmFireworks for the New Year
It is always good to start the new year with a bang, as Manila knows so well. Manila can do fireworks. So let’s put some important issues on the table, cerebral fireworks. Mind benders. To get the discussion rolling, we should look at some issues that we may not yet have found consensus on or, … Continue reading
Christmas Love
It’s Christmas in our family. Our two older daughters have arrived from one of the world’s most livable cities for the holidays. They live and work abroad. Our family of six—not counting four dogs—is whole again. We celebrate Christmas like it’s the only game in town, more so now, when my wife and I preside … Continue reading
Who wants to be a dictator
w By Chempo We have all seen real life dictators in our very own lifetime – Pol Pot, Muammar Qaddafi, Robert Mugabe, Mao Tse Tung, Marcos, etc., and we all know what they did to their countries. Many put themselves on the throne by usurpation in which case there is little the individual can do. … Continue reading
“The confidence of the dumb”
There is a scale of intelligence upon which one person is smarter than another, and there is a scale of knowledge upon which one person knows more than another, and there is a scale of ego upon which one person exhibits more confidence or hubris than another, and there is a scale of forthrightness, the … Continue reading
Pemberton: the Philippines stands for justice and calm; the Inquirer fails to
As I read about the Pemberton judicial findings, homicide rather than murder and a total of P4.5 million in damage awards rather than the P100 million sought by the victim’s family, I was struck that the judge worked calmly and independently to find reason among the conflicting arguments. Her findings did not seem to be shaded by politics … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 