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JoeAmWhy Y’all Uncomfortable with Americans?
Shape shifters and borgs. Shape-shifters are Star Trek aliens who possess the magnificent ability to change composition and morph into different shapes and looks and beings. A lizard-man one day, a human the next. The borg is a big cubic alien world/structure that unites the brains of thousands of humanoids in one machine-like creature that … Continue reading
Bible Update: The Book of Maude
The Bible is many books in one. It is a historical treatise, albeit one built on a lot of allegory and story. It is a text book. It is a recitation of moral law, or how we can live in God’s image. And it represents civil law for the time it was written. It is … Continue reading
Philippine Class Structure, Revisited
The core of this article ran about a year ago. I’ve since added the class “Rational Climbers” and will now try to put it into a context that is useful. This article is commentary. It does not pretend an academic or statistical foundation. It is a westerner’s impressions of Philippine society gleaned by living in … Continue reading
The "Bring ’em Back Act"
I wonder what is the truth of the matter. Do top Philippine leaders want to bring overseas workers back home, or is the revenue generated too valuable? Do leaders set aside the knowledge that citizens face broken homes, loneliness, and dangers of harassment and discrimination, or rape, so the Philippines can gain from the remittances … 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
The Society of Honor by Joe America 