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JoeAmThe Bottom Line on Poverty: Parenting
The discussion attached to the recent article “Happy Go Dead” Filipinosgenerated some interesting perspectives. The importance of parental guidance to children was raised, and the ignorance that blocks a lot of parents from understanding how to give responsible guidance to their kids. So the unfortunate behavior pattern of neglect for laws, lack of common sense … Continue reading
Killer Books
Every once in a while I’ll be out typing my yap in a blog site and someone will opine that “Joe America is an intellectual who . . .” Well, boy howdy, that cracks my head open like ripe jack fruit on the cutting board, because I don’t consider myself to be no “intellectual”. I … Continue reading
Joe Am’s "Philippine Church of Man"
This publicity release announces the formation of a new church by Joseph August America, famous bombastic blogging banshee of the Visayas. “This is an alternative to the ritual-packed, superstitious religions people now follow like moths to a candle,” said Mr. America in a news conference. “Other churches use that scapegoat Satan, or his brother, the … Continue reading
PCIJ and the Art of Digging
You know, I take pot-shots at Philippine media for its sensationalism and commercial greed, particularly the two popular television stations. But I also hold Philippine journalists in very high regard as being THE MOST SIGNIFICANT counter-balancing force to the strange beast that is Philippine oligodemocracy. That is a term I found in the Humpty Dumpty … Continue reading
"Happy Go Dead" Filipinos
Do you know the expression “Happy go lucky”? It is one of those idioms that if you read it literally, it makes no sense. But with usage, it does. It means a person who is carefree, living life richly and maybe even dangerously, but always winning in the end. It attaches easily to the Philippines. … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 