JoeAm Chickens Out
This blog is a substitute article for the one I am too afraid to post. As you know, this JoeAm character uses his words sharply. He is like the American at a fiesta party who will not get out of your face and insists on telling you what’s on his mind, even if you don’t … Continue reading
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