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 →

A Kick in the Shorts, July 2012

Here are some shorts for your pondering: “Afloat Forward Staging Bases” The U.S. is reconfiguring its war-making capability. It has found that relying on “allies” like Pakistan for land bases can be troublesome, whereas the seas are open to all. So the latest development is to design ships that can serve as floating islands for … Continue reading →

JoAm: "Nationalize Mining!", exclamation point!

One of my thinking styles is to figure, well, if Person X, for whom I don’t hold a lot of respect, says to do something THIS WAY, I say DO IT THE OPPOSITE WAY! Exclamation points are required. So if Get Real Post says Senator Santiago is a hero, I can be quite confident that … Continue reading →

Sedition: A Variable Crime Arising from Insecurity

I was prowling the online law library of Chan Robles researching Customs law. According to standing Customs law, which are ancient statutes put into effect by Presidential Decree under President Marcos, inspectors are supposed to be on the lookout for seditious materials. As decreed, the following are banned: (b) Written or printed articles in any form … Continue reading →