Are you a lover, a hater, or a teacher?

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Social media are undermining civility and sense. We are there, so we are parties to the creation of the data dirtstreams that give us nonsense instead of solutions. My interactions with people on X, Facebook, Blue Sky, and this blog make clear that there are three types of people … Continue reading

Who’s YOUR Daddy? Haha!

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America We all see that dynasts run the Philippines, or friends of dynasts like that Bong Go fellow. A dynasty is more than the immediate family. It’s all the followers, like DDS, who took pride in promoting a murderer as good for the nation. And it is a sequencing of … Continue reading

Proposed: The Maria Ressa Social Media Ethics Board of the Philippines

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America Bloggers and individuals on social media have no ethical standards by which to operate, and no monitoring agency other than the Legislature and a Cybercrime Law that was concocted by thin-skinned politicians to suppress criticism that demeaned them. The House has recently done fine work to reveal and rein … Continue reading

The Portuguese and other ghosts in the Philippines

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America My household is in near crisis mode, and it’s hilarious. My wife is convinced someone is stealing food from our refrigerator. Last week a zucchini squash disappeared. A few days later, an extra hard-boiled egg she stashed there went missing. “We have Portuguese!” she declared, meaning poltergeist. Well that … Continue reading

Social media, the disease, and we, the diseased

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America I wrote the other day that social media is a disease and we are all sick. It is a global pandemic that is so severe that people don’t know they are sick. In the old days, prior to about 1985, we had three main inputs to our brains. What … Continue reading