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JoeAmWaste segregation: Sorting the good critics from the bad
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
A matter of trust: the rest of the Abad story
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
A plunge into the darkened mind of Juan Ponce Enrile
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
The Philippines, a land of Mafia dons and dead journalists
We read a lot about the shooting of journalists in the Philippines and the inability of the government to stop this assault on one of our most prized democratic values, freedom of the press. The killings are an affront to a nation that prides itself on being among the most expressively free in the world . . . … Continue reading
The Concept of “Considerate Accountability”
A few blogs ago, I pointed out that legislators and regulators are in bed with lawmakers and so ordinary Philippine consumers get a runaround (“Regulatory incest in the Philippines“). Consumers have no power other than a vote every few years. Therefore, the Philippine economy is held back because consumers are not empowered to demand change, or to … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 