Waste segregation: Sorting the good critics from the bad

Posted by JoeAm on July 17, 2014 · 50 Comments 

A beginner’s guide to the personalities and groups opposing DAP by Andrew Lim The noise on the DAP issue has reached deafening levels, and it is time to classify the sectors that are doing the screeching. Just like household garbage, we need to sort them out, since many of them have very dark motives why … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Politics

A matter of trust: the rest of the Abad story

Posted by JoeAm on July 13, 2014 · 69 Comments 

A Society reader kindly sent me a report, recently made public. I read it and was suddenly struck with a new awareness. What if the shrill cry for Secretary Abad’s  resignation has been wrong all along, built on an emotional bubble provoked by enemies of the straight path, fueled by sensationalist headlines and leftist rants? … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government

A plunge into the darkened mind of Juan Ponce Enrile

Posted by JoeAm on July 10, 2014 · 29 Comments 

I’m not a psychiatrist, just an observer. From time to time, I write fiction. This article can be taken as but another figment of JoeAm’s wayward literary license. It can also be taken as a bit of a rebuttal to Senator Enrile’s autobiography, which is said to deploy some imaginative literary license itself. If the esteemed Senator need not be bound by … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Politics

The hardhearted priest in the hardhearted Philippines

Posted by JoeAm on July 9, 2014 · 43 Comments 

Once again two seemingly unrelated incidents clinked a loud, unified chime in my certified cerebral collection center for the putting together of things. One, a Philippine priest berated an unwed mother who had brought her baby in for baptism, accusing her of living in sin and claiming the baby was born in sin. As if Jesus was … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Philippine Politics

JoeAm rates the top presidential candidates

Posted by JoeAm on July 7, 2014 · 32 Comments 

As I mention here and there, I don’t think facts are always that important. Facts can lead us into an obsession with detail, a problem many Filipinos have. Or they can be outright lies. Rather, it is ideas that count. Different ways of looking at problems, figuring things out, extending a few “what ifs” into … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Philippine Politics