Dear President Marcos, kindly don’t kiss America’s patootie

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America I was highly disturbed last week by news videos showing the acting American ambassador to Manila visiting an ICI meeting. The video showed Filipinos treating this acting guy as a movie star, and the movie star enjoying his role. He should not have been there. Philippine justice is a … Continue reading →

Filed under China, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Governance, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics, USA/Americans

When computers run human thinking

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America We are explorers, each and every one of us, moving forward, because there is no backward, into the era in which computers do human thinking. The flood has begun and we already are finding it hard to tell who wrote that, a human or a machine? Pictures and videos … Continue reading →

Filed under Culture and Arts, Education, Life, Technology/Internet

How to detect nonsense in your daily reading

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America I was amusing myself on Twitter the other day engaging with a US resident who criticized the Philippines in response to my post that jabbed at the craziness going on in the US these days. He was trolling me, I was trolling him, then out of my head rolled … Continue reading →

Filed under Blogging/Journalism, Culture and Arts, Education, Life

Poor Filipinos should admit they’ve voted badly

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America The Philippines will remain corrupt, incompetent at caring for citizens, and poor as long as poor Filipinos don’t take it upon themselves to elect honest leaders. They should stop blaming others and look at their own track record. Their 2016 choice now sits in an international jail. Are they … Continue reading →

Filed under Citizenship/Patriotism, Governance, Philippine Politics

A Filipino uprising

Analysis and Opinion By Joe America I have a great weather app, Windy.com. It allows me to see and project storms with very high accuracy. It’s well worth the $20 annual fee for premium that has so many measurements from smog to lightning strikes that I can project the camel population in Egypt based on … Continue reading →

Filed under Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Governance, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics