Leni Robredo is a model, not a goddess

Posted by JoeAm on June 2, 2025 · 84 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Here’s the best way forward. Detach your ego from personalities and attach your brain to concepts. Let me explain. Pinks are good people at about the 98% level. Thoughtful, patriotic, compassionate, constructive. Engaged. A very small share are arrogant, obnoxious, or stupid. But a large share is attached to … Continue reading →

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

Imagining the feudal Philippines with an AI architecture

Posted by JoeAm on May 29, 2025 · 68 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America AI is not coming, it’s here, a satanic wind blown in from the east, giving the dumb intelligence, the confused order, and the profitable even more profits. Who needs college when AI can fake your resumé and help you fake skills. Just call me Doctor America who knows as … Continue reading →

Category China, Economy, Education, Philippine Government, Technology/Internet

Dear Philippines, you are doing fine. Joe

Posted by JoeAm on May 22, 2025 · 171 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America I posted a note on social media the other day in which I observed: Of 24 senators, I calculate there are five for China, five for Marcos, three for the Philippines, and 11 for themselves. I’ll have to run the calculations past my bookie for verification. He’s stoned right … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Economy, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics

Are younger Filipinos seeing a Philippines greater than its greedy dynasties and empty populists?

Posted by JoeAm on May 15, 2025 · 103 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Legislature election victories by principled liberals, notably Aquino, Pangilinan, De Lima, and Diokno, tell us three things. Younger adults recognize principled leadership, and want it. Dynasties have a lot of clout, but none today runs the Philippines. If there were more principled liberals striving for recognition, more would get … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Economy, Education, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics

“One small step for Filipinos”

Posted by JoeAm on May 1, 2025 · 114 Comments 

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Recent discussions here at the blog cite the reality that the Philippine governmental process, and citizen reactions to it, range from dysfunctional to toxic. It is such a mess that it cannot be “cured” by simple masterstrokes. It is also true that things work better here than in the … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Ecology/Global Warming, Economy, Education, Family/Parenting/Children, Philippine Government, Technology/Internet