The Earth is Melting

Color me Chicken Little . . . The following pro-forma has been added to The Society of Honor’s permanent pages so that it will not get lost in stale blog archives. “Climate Change Response Program” There is nothing that prevents any city or municipality from taking up its own defense, nothing that prevents them from … Continue reading

Fictions, Frictions and Economic Predictions

<!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } — I am always surprised when a Filipino accuses me of being an “idealist” or an “intellectual”, as if my writings were somehow detached from practicality. And I am equally surprised when I opine about things that I consider to be … Continue reading

What a Jerk

Sometimes, upon re-reading what slid out of my brain and onto my typewriter, I agree that I really am a piece of work, insensitive and arrogant and too willing to let anger run my keyboard. Sigh. I will not remove the bits that offend me, and undoubtedly others. They stand as a stamp across my … Continue reading

It Really Fries My Bacon

What is it about dysfunction that comes so easily to the Philippines? I spent a little time researching Philippine initiatives on climate change. I am fascinated by global warming and the climate changes it is producing, real time, in our lifetimes. Al Gore won the Nobel Prize a few years ago for his work to … Continue reading

Silencing of the Lambs

The modern whiz-bang real-time era of videos and tweets and blogs and social networking sites and hundreds of cable television channels offering up everything from fake diamonds to porn is putting governments under duress and our social fabric under strain. China tries fruitlessly to keep its billions of residents protected from the onslaught of information … Continue reading