Corruption and Poverty

Guest Article by Edgar Lores In response to JoeAm’s blog HDPR: The Enormous Challenge, Poverty Joe, I was trying to come up with a Unified Field Theory on corruption and poverty but I soon realised I was waaay out of my depth.  So instead of a “theory of everything” I have this Bits-and-Pieces Theory… To begin … Continue reading

Elitism, Mars and JoeAm’s House

If you were fighting the rain last week, perhaps you missed the video from the U.S. about “Seven Minutes of Terror“, the Curiosity expedition to Mars. “Curiosity” is a nuclear powered robotic rover that will help earthbound creatures decide if there is a different place that can sustain human life. Gadzooks, but NASA marketed this … Continue reading

Killer Books

Every once in a while I’ll be out typing my yap in a blog site and someone will opine that “Joe America is an intellectual who  . . .” Well, boy howdy, that cracks my head open like ripe jack fruit on the cutting board, because I don’t consider myself to be no “intellectual”. I … Continue reading

Duck! TESDA, a branch in the eyeball.

Have you ever gone hiking with friends through the forest and the person in front of you lets fly with a branch that hits you in the face? That’s what visiting some web sites is like. There is the forest, there are the trees, and there are the web sites that obsess over the branches. … Continue reading

One Nation, Under God, Absurd and Infinitely Divisible

Author’s Note: You may have read some of this before. What I’d ask that you keep in mind is how straightforward it can be to do what is good for the Philippines if the goal is simple yet profound.________ Philippine society has a split personality, one wholesome, fun-loving and family oriented, the other a pyramid … Continue reading