When people are smarter than their government

Posted by JoeAm on August 12, 2019 · 44 Comments 

By JoeAm People complain a lot about social media. I like the stuff myself. On Facebook, I can keep tabs with the life and adventures of my friends and acquaintances, know their activities, their successes, and their jokes. I can share my own. Still, I don’t use FB for news. It’s unreliable and hard to … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, China, Education, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Philippine Government

Eking Out An Opposition

Posted by Wilfredo G. Villanueva on August 8, 2019 · 21 Comments 

by Wilfredo G. Villanueva Dark with shades of gray, that would be the predominant color of Philippine democracy to a painter. There would be a little pink, that’s Vice President Leni Robredo, representing everything that’s good about the country, hemmed in by the grays, but heroically manifesting herself just the same. Yellow would of course … Continue reading →

Category Family/Parenting/Children, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics

Airport or ecology? Is the choice binary?

Posted by JoeAm on August 5, 2019 · 148 Comments 

By JoeAm The Department of Transportation has accepted San Miguel Corporation’s bid to build a new Manila Airport about 50 kilometers north of Manila (about half the distance to Clark). With four runways and eight terminals, decent proximity to Manila, and funded privately, the proposed airport is a superb long-term solution to Manila’s airport problem. … Continue reading →

Category Ecology/Global Warming, Economy, Philippine Government

Filipinos are the Indians of the Wild, Wild East

Posted by JoeAm on July 29, 2019 · 104 Comments 

By Joe Am The American Indians lost the great ethnic war of the Wild West. They were out-gunned and poisoned with diseases and betrayed, when they tried to talk. But they had their victories, ask Custer about that. Settlers plodding across the nation in covered wagons circled their wagons for defense against attacking Indian bands. … Continue reading →

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

Twitter as a source of real information

Posted by JoeAm on July 26, 2019 · 40 Comments 

By JoeAm I’ve found that my best source of information is Twitter. I had not expected this when I first signed on a few years ago. But it is not just a chit-chat medium. First of all, there is a lot of information flying around in our news universe, some trustworthy, much not. I can’t … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Education, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics