Wilfredo G. Villanueva
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Juana Pilipinas
Karl Garcia
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Irineo B. R. Salazar
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JoeAmA Philippine Colony on the Moon?
This is today’s science report. While the Philippines is trying to figure out how to get electricity to Mindanao, the rest of the world is moving on . . . The Kepler spacecraftlaunched by the U.S. several years ago, is out there finding planets that might be habitable. It watches 150,000 suns, scanning for shadows … Continue reading
Fudging and Filipino Legislators
Let me try to characterize the Philippine social value called “Fudging”. If we flip through the Humpty Dumpty New World Dictionary, skipping past a particularly popular American obscenity because it is not relevant to his inquiry, we come across the definition we need: Fudging: a propensity to work around the edges of the law for … Continue reading
Getting from A to B and B to C on Education
Last year, I got inspired about education, specifically, a way to stop the current pattern of doing things, forever building hollow-block classrooms and stuffing them with 45 kids each led by an overworked, underpaid, undertrained teacher who is happier than the kids are when the day ends. I wrote six articles about it. The idea … Continue reading
Hey Babycakes, pass me that wrench, eh?
One of the things that amazes me about the Philippines is the ingenuity of the maintenance men around here. I say men because I have never seen a Filipina mechanic. I did see a woman pedaling one of those for-hire tricycles the other day. One among a thousand or so. Some of the coconut trucks … Continue reading
The Territorial Integrity of the Philippines, or What’s Up with Sabah?
The world, when it was larger and not so overcrowded, was a contentious place, an arena for combat over land. Imperialistic ambitions ran rabid as empires were struck, then lost. The Romans, the British, the Germans, the Moors and Huns and Ruskies. Visions of world domination inspired the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor. After all, … Continue reading
