Duck! TESDA, a branch in the eyeball.

Have you ever gone hiking with friends through the forest and the person in front of you lets fly with a branch that hits you in the face? That’s what visiting some web sites is like. There is the forest, there are the trees, and there are the web sites that obsess over the branches. … Continue reading

OMG! We’re ALONE!

I’ve read a couple of headlines in popular media that basically take the stance that the Philippines is “alone” among Asian nations in opposing the aggressiveness of China. “Poppycock!” I say. “Poppycock!” China has succeeded in making the Philippines SEEM alone. Score 10 points to China for dividing the Asean meeting this past week. It … Continue reading

Blood and Glory, Words and Worry

China is a huge pain in the ass. This is a nation with its brain striving for right-minded ideals like cooperation, freedom, capitalism and wealth while its feet are rooted in the wrong-headed cements of autocracy and thuggish self absorption. Here are the three national zones of water defined in the United Nations Convention on … Continue reading

A Thousand Words . . . Or More

Some photographs are more than a thousand words. They express the entire depth of our emotions about a scene, a circumstance, a situation. Sometimes they shock. Sometimes they create great mirth or sadness or disgust. That’s because they reach beyond the object in the picture and get to us, inside. Indeed, when we view them, … Continue reading

A Kick in the Shorts, July 2012

Here are some shorts for your pondering: “Afloat Forward Staging Bases” The U.S. is reconfiguring its war-making capability. It has found that relying on “allies” like Pakistan for land bases can be troublesome, whereas the seas are open to all. So the latest development is to design ships that can serve as floating islands for … Continue reading