Forgetting and Forfeiting

w By Rolan F. Literatus Lee Kuan Yew once held the view that the Filipino people has a soft forgiving culture. According to him, it is this cultureĀ that puts the Philippines as the only country in the world that considers a national burial for a former dictator who pillaged the country for twenty years and … Continue reading

Worshiping idols instead of electing leaders

It occurred to me that Philippine voters, being broadly of the emotional and unread variety, do not really have much knowledge about their preferred candidates. They are making choices on the basis of what tabloid media report in their sensational headlines, or what candidates craft in terms of advertising, or what their friends and family … Continue reading

Heneral Luna Today

w by Irineo B. R. Salazar The focus in the Philippines is always, and too much, on the President. He or she is expected to be a paramount datu, rajah or barangay captain to deal with all problems in the Philippines, a country of nearly 100 million people, in an archipelago of over 7000 islands … Continue reading

China’s stealth invasion of the Philippines

China is the muscular underachiever out to prove a point, behavior we would normally associate with a teen-ager, but China has been around awhile. Indeed, China displays symptoms of emotional duressĀ born of centuries of playing second fiddle to smaller, stronger nations. Her leaders portray racial differenceĀ as racial superiority in order to get even, to compensate, … Continue reading

Google Trends and the Last Minute Voter

w by Giancarlo What is Google Trends? From wikipedia: “Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., based on Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages. The horizontal axis of the main graph represents … Continue reading