Wilfredo G. Villanueva
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Juana Pilipinas
Karl Garcia
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Irineo B. R. Salazar
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JoeAmSilencing of the Lambs
The modern whiz-bang real-time era of videos and tweets and blogs and social networking sites and hundreds of cable television channels offering up everything from fake diamonds to porn is putting governments under duress and our social fabric under strain. China tries fruitlessly to keep its billions of residents protected from the onslaught of information … Continue reading
Anti-Pinoy: Deceit or Honor?
<!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> The Anti-Pinoy (AP) community blog site is the brain child of US resident Filipino BongV. The site was enriched when, exasperated by the editorial restrictions on the FilipinoVoices (FV) community blog site, Benign0 and BenK joined BongV with the aim … Continue reading
Anti-Pinoy Thugs
Words are great fun, eh? One of my favorites is “epiphany”. Elegant, ephemeral, artistic, profound. Angels singing hallelujah against the brilliant rays of the rising sun, casting elation across a big internal sky of fluffy white clouds. Cool word. “Thug” is nice, too. Dumb. Physical. Heavy, like the clubs used. Anyway, I had an epiphany … Continue reading
Of Snakes and Wives
I’ve been remiss in writing here. Part of it is the distraction of building a home, where my wife is the informal general contractor and I am the chief nag and bone-picker. I don’t know when our roles got reversed, she started wearing the pants, and I got relegated to second fiddle in the fief. … Continue reading
The Vanities of the Philippines
Okay, I’ve got it. Crystal clear, thanks to a few slaps in the face on AntiPinoy.com and the brutal but perceptive views of The Judge. Here’s my blatantly unstatistical take on things, generalizations so gross that they should be used for nothing other than make you think. Filipinos come in three basic styles: (1) The … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 