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JoeAmLouis Jenkins and Other Intellectuals
I was shocked when a blog commenter a while back claimed Joe America was an “intellectual”. I hold that intellectuals can speak several languages, French foremost among them, cite Greek mythology and quote Shakespeare. I can’t do that. I can’t even speak pig Latin. My daughter is an intellectual. Indeed, she can write Shakespearian sonnets … Continue reading
Joe Am’s Philippines
I wrote a couple of articles ago that the Philippines is like amoebae in a Petri dish, lots of activity bouncing about going nowhere. Let me expound on this a bit more to explain what I think COULD be a very different situation. The Current Conditions The Philippines can’t be compared to the United States. … Continue reading
We the People . . . Need to Grow a Pair
I am always reminded after a Pacquiao fight on GMA how passive Filipinos are. How subservient they are to those who hold themselves up as betters. The factual representation of their impotence is measured in advertising minutes per hour, where GMA bludgeons its captive audience with 45 minutes of advertising supporting 15 minutes of boxing. … Continue reading
Big Sky Cannonballs
The US has a state called Montana. It is good sized yet hidden, for it is off the beaten path, nudged up north against the border with Canada, lots of nothing to the East, and the rains and trees of the Pacific Northwest to the west. Rich Americans buy large properties in Montana to get … Continue reading
Grinding Axes
It struck me the other day that most people in the world are busy grinding axes. I came to this point a while back when manuelbuencamino said in a comment to my blog that “. . . you roll with punches as good as you can deliver them.” It caused me to reflect on how … Continue reading
The Society of Honor by Joe America 