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JoeAmGetting Real with a Grain of Salt
Enough, Joseph America. Stop ragging on a culture you do not own, like a guest who drinks most of the wine or scarfs up all the guacamole dip or pisses in the fountain. By the way, avocados in California, USA, are very different than the sweetish flat-tasting pasty ones here. They are smaller and firmer … Continue reading
That Ugly Albatross
I’m fascinated with the power of the human brain, and its limits. Jerry Lucas, former New York Knickerbockers basketball forward, was a memory expert. He memorized the entire New York telephone directory, all of the names, addresses and numbers, to prove a point. Our cranial capacity goes largely unused. It is like the whole of … Continue reading
The Philippines: Cowboys and Indians Ride Again
In penning my last blog, my brain stumbled across a great visual. I said something like: “The Philippines is a lawless land. Those with power are cowboys and those without power are Indians”. Striving for example, I said the Indians were the victims of massacres and the bodies floating down the Cagayan de Oro river … Continue reading
Here Comes de Judge
“Here come de Judge!” That is a line from an old American comedy, offered up by this black kid played by . . . um, who? I forget. I can’t even remember who played the Judge. My God, age is stupefying. “Here comes de judge” was also the name of my jeep in Viet Nam, … Continue reading
Going in Circles
This blog has become stuck. I find myself going over the same tracks regarding Philippine culture. It is a limit of my ambition, I suppose, that I don’t dig into new topics. There are several good sites that monitor important subjects such as the impeachment trial that do a better job of providing information than … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 