Authors
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Wilfredo G. Villanueva
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Cha Coronel Datu
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Juana Pilipinas
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Karl Garcia
- Why Mexico Did Not Continue the Galleon Trade After Independence
- The Philippines and the Seven Years’ War: An Indirect Colony in a Global Conflict
- Between Magellan and Legazpi: The Forgotten Gap, the Rise and Fall of the Habsburgs, and Why the Philippines Became More Mexican Than Spanish
- Before Colonization: The Maritime, Networked, and Layered Foundations of the Philippines
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giancarloangulo
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Irineo B. R. Salazar
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JPilipinas
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karlgarcia
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JoeAm
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2011 International Arrogance Ranking
JoeAm’s first ever International Arrogance Ranking. The ranking includes only those countries about which JoeAm has sufficient information to compile a rating. Three component evaluations make up the total score, with each of the component ratings weighted equally. Hubris: How willing are nations to tell other nations how to conduct their business? Ignorance: How open … Continue reading
Hanging Judges
I see President Aquino is on the verbal warpath again, his target being an outrageously underperforming Judiciary. President Aquino cited how cases frequently take six years or more to resolve, and some cases last decades. Judiciary has been a burr under the President’s saddle ever since President’s Arroyo’s undiplomatic midnight appointment of a Chief Justice … Continue reading
There are those who do, and those who do . . . nothing
10 reasons why you should refer The Society of Honor, or an article you liked, to people you know: Because Joe Am doesn’t try to blow smoke. He is on a mission to understand and opine and grow and contribute to the pool of thinking in the Philippines. Because he is the Anti-Anti Pinoy, more … Continue reading
Acculterating Joe Am
It struck me today as I drove assertively through the wild traffic that characterizes our town during rush hour that I have changed. I am no longer tense about the traffic coming at me from all sides like wasps from a fallen hive. I am no longer angry at the idiots who cut in front … Continue reading
Bloggers Have Flat Foreheads
Bloggers have flat foreheads. It comes from scrapping to put out an article, working it, reworking it. Then posting it. Then re-reading it a couple of days later and second-guessing. How many times have I gone back and said “this is gibberish”? Or, “whoops, I misspelled athiest”. Or “why didn’t I make that point when … Continue reading
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