Philippine Tribes and that Aquino Fellow

I remember as a kid going to my town’s “Harvest Festival”, generally held the last week of August, just before we packed off for a new school year, which in the U.S. starts in early September. The festival was great fun. They’d block off Main Street in town and the carnival people would come in … Continue reading

Where can I get a big-ass Chinese hat around here?

I muse about my disappearing act here. It is natural to want to explain why I took some time away from the keyboard. But I resist doing that and therein we have the subject of this blog. It is common to the human condition, and to Filipinos for sure, to want others to see us … Continue reading

JoeAm takes a pause . . .

Slight reconstruction underway. In the meantime . . . Aim high. Shoot straight. Read lots. Laugh well.

"Bloviating Ignorami", the Game

George Will, respected conservative newspaper columnist in the United States, coined a descriptor the other day that will live in infamy. He called “The Donald”, that is, Donald Trump, U.S. real estate, gambling  and entertainment tycoon, a “bloviating ignoramus”. Well, I have a reasonably large vocabulary, but the term “bloviating” was new to me. I … Continue reading

Arroyo, Santiago, Marcos, and Get Real Post

When I lived in the U.S., I would tune into C-Span, the television network that airs broadcasts of the Senate and House in action. It is a patriotic place of contention and argument, bias and posturing, facts and reason. Some days civil, most days down and dirty. The Supreme Court impeachment trial showed me something … Continue reading