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
Anti-Pinoy: Deceit or Honor?
<!– @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } –> The Anti-Pinoy (AP) community blog site is the brain child of US resident Filipino BongV. The site was enriched when, exasperated by the editorial restrictions on the FilipinoVoices (FV) community blog site, Benign0 and BenK joined BongV with the aim … Continue reading
Anti-Pinoy Thugs
Words are great fun, eh? One of my favorites is “epiphany”. Elegant, ephemeral, artistic, profound. Angels singing hallelujah against the brilliant rays of the rising sun, casting elation across a big internal sky of fluffy white clouds. Cool word. “Thug” is nice, too. Dumb. Physical. Heavy, like the clubs used. Anyway, I had an epiphany … Continue reading