Why Filipinos reject freedom

Posted by JoeAm on December 13, 2017 · 105 Comments 

By Joe America Let me step outside the Philippines for a moment, or rather hover above the nation like a drone cam. I’ll look across the landscape and generalize. I admit, these generalizations may not be fair to you or other readers who don’t really fit into my model. I apologize and ask you to … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Education, Family/Parenting/Children

Dick Malay: The Rebel Finds Love

Posted by Wilfredo G. Villanueva on November 6, 2017 · 94 Comments 

By Wilfredo G. Villanueva (First of Two Parts) (A dramatization based on a true story: Stones began raining on Sonny and the rest of the American kids as they were playing in JUSMAG—Joint U.S. Military Advisory Group—compound in Quezon City beside West Avenue in the summer of ‘52. They looked where the stones were coming … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Family/Parenting/Children, Philippine Government

Open discussion: Who, really, is the Filipino, today?

Posted by JoeAm on October 30, 2017 · 279 Comments 

By Joe America The first open discussion thread is getting long. We will leave that one for the lengthier comments that are collecting there to open this new one. I’ll again offer a suggested topic, but it is only a suggestion and is indeed a difficult subject, at least for me. I very much dislike … Continue reading →

Category Culture and Arts, Education, Family/Parenting/Children

To touch a dream

Posted by JoeAm on October 23, 2017 · 135 Comments 

By Joe America It is easy to get caught up in the negativity of a government of the crass, by the crass, and for the crass. Mean-spirited men and women haunt the hallowed halls of government and our public space every day, offending our sense of decency and fairness. There is a way out. I … Continue reading →

Category Culture and Arts, Education, Family/Parenting/Children, Philippine Government

The good life

Posted by JoeAm on September 13, 2017 · 103 Comments 

By Joe America I suppose many of us are spoiled from living the good life. I know I am. I was raised in the U.S. during the latter part of the 1900’s when wars were relegated to the cold type, or localized. We could always go fight in a foreign land and return to our … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Education, Family/Parenting/Children